good-cop bad-cop

English

Noun

good-cop bad-cop (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of good cop bad cop.
    • 2000, Meredith Ahner Wood, Re/sisters in Crime: Politics and Sexuality in Lesbian Detective Novels:
      They spent about an hour playing good-cop bad-cop and making a dent in my supply of dark French Roast from The Castro Bean (Tango 87).
    • 2000, John Shannon, The Poison Sky, Berkley, →ISBN:
      Just think, if we run into bad guys, there’s two of us, and we can play good-cop bad-cop.
    • 2007, Information Services Latin America:
      Together they can play good-cop bad-cop, while Cubans wait for word on their nation’s future.
    • 2010, Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry, Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 12:
      His personnel file, an inch thick with commendations, recounts hunches he played, good-cop bad-cop routines, shoot-outs with Glocks and Berettas.
    • 2010, John Sandford, Storm Prey, Penguin, →ISBN:
      JENKINS AND LUCAS played good-cop bad-cop for a while, Jenkins suggesting that Honey Bee had helped some, and she might help more, and so deserved another chance. Lucas wanted to put her in jail.
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