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New Scotland Yard   /nu skˈɑtlənd jɑrd/   Listen
New Scotland Yard

noun
1.
The detective department of the metropolitan police force of London.  Synonym: Scotland Yard.





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"New Scotland Yard" Quotes from Famous Books



... movement of the piece with Lambeth's old palace under your quarter and the houses of Parliament on your bow! Westminster Bridge is ahead of you then, and through it you flash, and in a moment the round-faced clock tower cranes up to peer at you again and New Scotland Yard squares at you, a fat beef-eater of a policeman disguised miraculously as ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells


Words linked to "New Scotland Yard" :   constabulary, police, police force, law


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