care bear
n.— «Sitting in his squad car on the westbound lane of Interstate 70 near Troy, Illinois State Trooper Scott Becker wasn’t getting a lot of chances to write speeding tickets.…Becker was just there to let the drivers know that he cared—one of the reasons CBers refer to them as “care bears.”» —“Slow down and save a life” by Scott Cousins Suburban Journals (Town and Country, Missouri) May 23, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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