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five-o

nounattested in dialogue

  • Australia

The police.

noun

  1. 1

    The police.

    Five-oh caught me, now I'm going to the mountains / Said good-bye to my girl, my lawyer and accountants

Etymology

From the police procedural television series Hawaii Five-O (first aired in 1968), so named because it is set in Hawaii, which is the 50th U.S. state.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).