Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun film A police movie, particularly one based on a police novel

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From the French

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word policier.

Examples

  • Français · Russie: Couvre feu pour les jeunes et accès de folie meurtrière d'un policier bahasa Indonesia · Rusia: Jam Malam Remaja dan Tembakan Tanpa Alasan Polisi

    Global Voices in English » Russia: Teen Curfew; Police Officer’s Shooting Spree 2009

  • I appreciate how the policier was willing to listen and take the information.

    creve - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Elsewhere, Ethan Hawke chews up the scenery as the cash-strapped cop on the take who pours out his heart in the confessional box in time-honoured policier fashion.

    Mark Kermode's DVD round-up Mark Kermode 2010

  • Merci beaucoup! comptoir gouttelette policier s'il vous plâit ... on a perdu deux chiens .... fourgonnette bon médaille

    creve - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Merci beaucoup! comptoir gouttelette policier s'il vous plâit ... on a perdu deux chiens .... fourgonnette bon médaille

    Braise The Dog 2009

  • Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 02: 40 PM policier - police s'il vous plâit ... on a perdu deux chiens ....

    creve - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • In the 1916 novella The Shadow-Line, from which Hugo Blick's sophisticated if mannered seven-part policier takes its name, Joseph Conrad wrote: "And the time, too, goes on – till one perceives ahead a shadow-line warning one that the region of early youth, too, must be left behind."

    TV review: The Shadow Line and Psychoville 2011

  • Here are some translations: comptoir - counter (or countertop) policier - police officer s'il vous plâit ... on a perdu deux chiens ....

    creve - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Here's my list of translations: comptoir: counter (as in a store) gouttelet: droplets policier: Policeman s'il vous plâit ... on a perdu deux chiens: please ... we've lost two dogs fourgonnette: small van bon: good or "alright then" in this instance médaille: medallion/tag

    creve - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Also showing is Lebanese director Muhammed Selman's policier

    Bombings, Exile, Return: Cinema of a Scarred Land 2010

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.