or Roberto, subs. (common).—A policeman.
1870. Figaro, 18 Nov. That intolerable nuisance, the “British Peeler”—who is always poking his nose where he is not wanted, and is never to be found when he is—is, after all, a sensitive creature. The blood of the ROBERTS is at length aroused.
1880. G. R. SIMS, An Awful Character.
| The guilt of one person is well to the fore, | |
| For our ‘ROBERTS’ so terribly fly are. |
