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bobby noun1. colloq. Also Bobby. M19.
[Pet-form of male forename Robert, after Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), who founded the Irish constabulary and introduced the new Police Act in Britain in 1828. Cf. PEELER noun2.]
A (British) policeman.