hockey cop

Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a rugged, aggressive player whose function is to intimidate opposing players and thus prevent them from roughing up his team-mates.

See: policeman(def. 2)

Quotations

1963

But mostly, the hockey cops are on the ice to settle fights, not start them.