Brewer's: Bobby

A policeman; so called because Sir Robert Peel introduced the force, at least into Ireland. (See Peeler.)

But oh! for the grip of the bobby's hand Upon his neck that day.

Punch:
July 26, 1884.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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