badge bunny

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English

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Etymology

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  • badge (an item worn and displayed by police officers) +‎ bunny.
  • Bunny is used in combination to refer to female groupies.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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badge bunny (plural badge bunnies)

  1. (US, idiomatic) A woman who is romantically attracted to police officers and who seeks out their companionship.
    • 2000, “Third Watch: The Tys That Bind”, in TV.com, retrieved 19 Feb. 2009:
      "She could be . . . a cop groupie or a badge bunny, one of those kind of people."
    • 2006 July 7, Tim Dees, “Coping with that Primal Urge”, in Officer.com, retrieved 19 Feb. 2009:
      And cops seem to have their share of followers, too. The most common term for these women is "badge bunny."
    • 2008 November 19, “TV Listings: Wednesday's Highlights”, in Los Angeles Times:
      Crews and Reese (Damian Lewis, Sarah Shahi) discover the dead teacher was a woman who exclusively dated cops—a "badge bunny" (9 pm NBC).

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