kitchen police

1. 1.

   an enlisted person who is assigned to assist the cooks

   SynonymsKP

   Broaderenlisted person

Questions about kitchen police

What does kitchen police mean?

kitchen police means "an enlisted person who is assigned to assist the cooks".

What is another word for kitchen police?

Close synonyms include KP. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kitchen police a common word?

kitchen police is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.