cops and robbers

noun

: a children's game in which the players imitate the way police chase and shoot at criminals in movies, on television, etc.

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Grown men running around a Long Island farm playing cops and robbers until the sun went down. —

Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2024

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