smokey

smokey
   American
   a policeman
   The DAS suggests this comes from Smokey the Bear, the US Forestry Service symbol, and see also bear1.
    The only enemies are the weather and the occasional lawman, known as 'Smokey Bear'. (Daily Telegraph, 1995, writing about American truckers)
   Whence many compounds: smokey beaver, a policewoman; smokey on four legs, a policeman on horseback; smokey with camera, police with radar; smokey on rubber, police in a car; smokey with ears, police listening or able to listen to CB; and so on.

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