speed cop

1. 1.

   a policeman who rides a motorcycle (and who checks the speeds of motorists)

   Synonymsmotorcycle copmotorcycle policeman

   Broaderpoliceman

Questions about speed cop

What does speed cop mean?

speed cop means "a policeman who rides a motorcycle (and who checks the speeds of motorists)".

What is another word for speed cop?

Close synonyms include motorcycle cop, motorcycle policeman. 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 speed cop a common word?

speed cop is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.