bluecoat

Plural: bluecoats

Noun

• A person wearing a blue coat, especially a police officer.
• a person dressed all in blue (as a soldier or sailor)
• A pupil attending any of certain prestigious British schools having a traditional dress code.
• A soldier or officer in the Union army during the American Civil War
• A policeman

Examples

• The bluecoat of the Scrabble community enforced the rules with a strict hand.
• This was a bluecoat school in my day.

Synonyms

police officer