(UK, slang) A member of the police.
"Yeah, the gavvers were after Dad for a bunch of stuff he'd done years ago — fake license plates, stolen cars, that dodgy Range Rover deal he had going..."
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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