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Blue wall   /blu wɔl/   Listen
Blue wall

noun
1.
The secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers.  Synonyms: blue wall of silence, wall of silence.






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"Blue wall" Quotes from Famous Books



... north by heights in three distinct planes: the nearest is the Jebel Sukk, low and white; farther rises Tayyib Ism, a chocolate-coloured mass studded with small peaks; while the horizon is closed by the grand blue wall, the Jebel el-Mazhafah. In places their precipices drop bluff to the sea; but the huge valley-mouths separating the two greater ridges, have vomited a quantity of sand, forming the tapering tongue and tip known as the "Little Shore." Turning to the east and the south-east we have for horizon ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton



Words linked to "Blue wall" :   wall of silence, blue wall of silence, cover-up



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