Five-O, an American slang term for law enforcement. Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series), an American television police drama airing from 1968 to 1980. Hawaii Five-O (album), a 1969 album by The Ventures.
The Hawaii Five-0 Task Force is a fictional state government police taskforce appearing in the CBS police procedural series Hawaii Five-0.
First appearance. The Hawaii Five-0 Task Force is a government task force in Hawaii which was created by Governor Patricia Jameson in an attempt to rid the Hawaiian Islands of crime, corruption and murder as well as any and all threats of terrorism.
Hawaii is the 50th state, and that's where the original title was born. But it's also true that it was the series that led to the creation of the police slang '5-0. ' We hope we have been of service.
The term 5-0 or Five-O for police officers is believed to have come from the television show Hawaii Five-O, which was popular in the 1970s. The show featured a team of police officers who fought crime in the state of Hawaii. The term is now used as a slang term for police officers in general.
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050-Be On Point. 061-Ghetto Star. 073-Tear Him Up.
traps, trappers or jacks – police. These Australianisms have been largely replaced by the international cops, coppers, pigs or bacon. However the older, more affectionate wallopers is also still used.
J. English/Australian slang term short for jackboots. The term can be used to describe a police officer, informant or an unreliable person. "To go jack on a mate" is the act of betraying associates or implicating them in a crime.
Blue Heelers
(Noun) This term is so popular that a show about Australian police officers was named after it. They call cops blue heelers because they remind them of the Blue Heeler Cattle dog.
TF 145, or TF 88 as it may now be known, was commanded by a colonel (the commanding officer of Delta Force) and is based at five locations across Iraq.
Task Force 121 (or TF-121), which has also been referred to as Task Force 6-26, was created in the summer of 2003 and was an elite, joint military-civilian unit that included CIA and Special Operations forces, assigned (according to various reports) to search for high-ranking members of the Saddam regime and/or weapons ...
Task Force 141 is a global, Private Military Company, founded in 2900 by two former UEE Marines to provide training and support to military and law enforcement organizations aswell as offer the private sector the ability to defend their cargo and lifes against the Vanduul threat.
He died of congestive heart failure at his home in Honolulu, on January 21, 1998, at the age of 77, leaving an estate of $40 million.
Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons on CBS from September 20, 1968, to April 8, 1980, and continues in reruns. At the airing of its last episode, it was the longest-running police drama in American television history and the last scripted primetime show that debuted in the 1960s to leave the air.
The mix of actual settings and made-up ones is par for the course for a TV series. The NBC reboot also makes the most of the island of Oahu, where the show shoots. “We used every inch of that Island,” Eric Guggenheim, showrunner for Magnum P.I., told NBC Insider.
The terms pommy, pommie, and pom used in Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand usually denote a British person.
According to National Public Radio's A Way With Words, its first use was a general derogatory term for anyone who is disagreeable, overweight or taking more than their share. In 1874, a slang dictionary published in London listed the definition of pig as “a policeman, an informer.
In Australia, cannabis is also known as grass, pot, dope, weed, joints, mull, hydro, yarndi, ganja, bud, or green.
Why do Australians call sweets “lollies”, even when they have no sticks? According to British English from A to Zed by Norman Schur (Harper, 1991) “lolly” derives onomatopoetically for the mouth sounds associated with sucking or licking. The word “lollipop” came later.
Bored shitless – To tell that he/she is bored.
A firefighter. Firie follows a common pattern in Australian informal English whereby a word is abbreviated (in this case firefighter or fireman) and the -ie (or -y) suffix is added. Other examples include barbie (a barbecue), Chrissy (Christmas), and rellie (a relative). Firie is recorded from the 1980s.
87 – (bitchy, or idiocy/idiot). 87 (pinyin: lit. bāqī, or loosely, báichī) represents "bitchy" (English) or 白痴 idiocy/idiot (Mandarin). 88 – "Bye bye" (goodbye). 88 (pinyin: bābā) represents "bye bye" (English).
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Japanese onomatopoeia for “applause” is “パチパチ” (which translates to 88 – “はちはち”), so 888888 is the sound of many hands clapping.