Swedey
Meaning
Proper Noun
- The Operation Countryman team, who led an investigation into police corruption in London, England in the late 1970s.
Origin
- , the latter being Cockney rhyming slang (Sweeney Todd) for the Flying Squad, and the former a reference to agriculture, since the investigators were drawn from rural police forces.
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