police station
The office or head-quarters of a local police force, or of a police district. Also attrib.
| 1846 Dickens Pictures from Italy 53 The hall..is as dirty as a police-station in London. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Police-station, the receiving⁓house where offenders are taken by the police; the place where the police assemble for orders, and to march out on duty. 1865 Dickens Mut. Fr. i. iii, A little winding through some muddy alleys,..brought them to the wicket-gate and bright lamp of a Police-station. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 27 Sept. 2/1 This police-station confession proved (unlike most of such self-accusations) to be true. a 1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 175 He has..stepped down To the police-station cell. |