English Explanatory Dictionary

Keystone Cop

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A bungling, incompetent policeman.

Word forms

Keystone Cop Keystone Cops Keystone Kop

Etymology

From the Keystone Cops, a group of fictional, humorously incompetent policemen featured in silent slapstick comedies produced by the Keystone Film Company (itself named for the "Keystone State": Pennsylvania) between 1912 and 1917.

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