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A New York City Police Department slang term for a veteran cop who is a bitter and burned-out complainer, usually an old beat cop who is a shirker. Some of this information comes from "Cop Diary -- The Word on the Street - What a Cop says and how he says it can matter more than his stick or his gun By Marcus Laffey (from the New Yorker, August 10, 1998" The rest comes from personal conversations with New York policemen in the 1950s. The following is from a personal conversation.
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