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busies

busies plural only

police
- 1973, James Patrick, A Glasgow Gang Observed, p. 64:
  Another song in their repertoire, sung to the tune of ‘Bless Them All’, began: ‘Stab then aw, stab them aw, the busies, the judges, an' aw!’
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 368:
  Freddy the driver did not say cops, he said busies. Watch out for the busies. These c***s will f*****g do ye.