maavehとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

maaveh pl (plural only)

1. (British Pakistani, slang) the police.
   • 2018 February 13, Fahid Qureshi, “The Prevent strategy and the UK ‘war on terror’: embedding infrastructures of surveillance in Muslim communities”, in Nature‎, retrieved 2024-April-20:

     For the young people in the youth clubs, the constant presence of local authorities was uncomfortable. At a Prevent funded youth club in Leeds, one of the boys complains to me: ‘Why is he [Danish] always letting the ‘maaveh’ (police) in here?’