︎pocol
n.— «Eighteen police officers have been disciplined for joking about crashing cars and injuring pedestrians on a social networking website, the Metropolitan police said today. The officers posted photos of crashes with comments on a group on Facebook called Look, I’ve had a pocol—slang for a police collision.» —“Police censured over road accident Facebook site” by Haroon Siddique Guardian June 23, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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