traffic cop

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   a policeman who controls the flow of automobile traffic

   Broaderpoliceman

   Narrowercrossing guardpointsman

Questions about traffic cop

What does traffic cop mean?

traffic cop means "a policeman who controls the flow of automobile traffic".

Is traffic cop a common word?

traffic cop 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.