peelers in English

noun
1
a device for removing the skin from fruit and vegetables.
a potato peeler
2
a police officer.
Is the word peeler the correct slang for a police officer?
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1. Most Salagamas were casual labourers, cinnamon peelers and agriculturalists.

2. Meat presses, bone saws, vegetable cutters, potato peelers, meat grinders

3. Beware of his bone grinders, brain blinders, flesh peelers, chromosomal inverters, catatonic sludge, black hole trapdoors, and, of course, radiation.

4. In Britain today all policemen are commonly referred to as ‘Bobbies’! Originally though, they were known as ‘Peelers’ in reference to one Sir Robert Peel (1788 – 1850)

5. In London, the policemen were so identified with the politician who created them that they were referred to as “Peelers” or—more memorably—“Bobbies,” after the popular nickname for Robert.