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flic

[flik, fleek] / flɪk, flik /


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It was rheumy old Georges Clemenceau who first called dapper, baldish Jean Chiappe "le flic le plus habile de France," "the smartest cop in France."

From Time Magazine Archive

"The best-dressed flic in France," as his colleagues called him, Tonnot made no secret of his own close connections with the underworld.

From Time Magazine Archive

They dispersed only after a judge reversed a lower-court ruling and freed 19-year-old Gilles Guiot, who had been jailed on flimsy charges of striking a flic during an earlier demonstration.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bey's light automatic flic flic flicked its excitement and dust and dirt enveloped the wall facing Crawford.

From Black Man's Burden by Reynolds, Mack

Flic flac, flic flac, the tramping of the feet!

From Punch or the London Charivari, September 9, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

Cara Black has studied Buddhism in India, taught English in Japan, and visits Paris at least twice a year with notebook in hand, to explore and to interview les flics about crime and procedure.

From Washington Post Apr. 16, 2022

Publishers are scouring the world for the next crime wave: a few summers hence we may all have forgotten about Oslo and Ystad, and be reading about les flics in Paris and Lyon instead.

From Economist Aug. 30, 2012

There has, alas, been no word on whether a half-smoked Gauloise and small glass of Ricard were left at the scene to taunt les flics.

From The Guardian May 20, 2010

Unfortunately, Director Truffaut finds something more to say, something more appropriate to a flick about flics than a study of sensibilities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Leaders indignantly shouted back to their followers, "Les flics ne veulent pas qu'on passe!"

From Time Magazine Archive




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