Brewer's: Slops

(The) The police; originally “ecilop.”

I dragged you in here and saved you, And sent out a gal for the slops; Ha! they're a comin', sir! Listen! The noise and the shoutin' stops.

Sims: Ballads of Babylon (The Matron's Story).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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