john hop n.
(Aus.) a police officer, usu. male.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sun. Times (Perth) 20 Mar. 5/2: The great midnight raid by the John Hops on the wrong house is still a subject of conversation. | |
| Sun. Times (Perth) 10 Jan. 5/3: He was stopped midway by the John [...] ‘It is I, constable,’ he said. | |
| Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 13 Apr. 1/3: Business was booming when ‘long nit’ gave the ‘warehouse,’ and the ‘diamond gee’ repeated it that ‘John Hopper’ was in sight having a sscrew’. | |
| Sun. Times (Perth) 11 June 9/6: I’d a spoke sooner. But the ‘John Hop’ was watching. | |
| Truth (Brisbane) 21 June 9/5: As a John Hobbs round the corner / He did have on me a set. | |
 | ‘Two Battlers and a Bear’ in Lone Hand (Sydney) Sept. 552/2: ‘Ther John Cop’s makin’ fer Kaola [...] which means we do a side-step here, ’n’ foot fer Wallader’. | |
| Age (Queanbeyan, NSW) 12 Jan. 2/6: Supposing any one of us was to get lumbered and flopped into that match box clink and a fire was to burst out, you can bet your sweet life that the lovely John Hopper and his missus and the kinchins would do a Carrington and leave the poor philgarlick in the booby hatch to frizzle. | |
| ‘A “Push” Story’ in Bulletin (Sydney) 2 Sept. 17/1: ‘Prodder jolted one Hop on th’ jaw, tripped up th’ other, ’n’ sprung f’r th’ street’. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Eve. Post (Wellington) 30 Apr. 7/3: The Parnell peelers were however smarter than the average ‘John Hops’. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 7 July 10/4: It is strange that the maddened punter of Ward’s islands yearns for the dear, dead days when a cronk penciller was heaved, defalcations and all, into a deep pond, while John Hop waved his helmet for joy. [Ibid.] 14/1: You c’n leave me dead drunk if they didn’t slip er Jon-hop inter th’ romance, ’n’ me pastry turned out putty. | |
| Argus (Melbourne) 8 Apr. 7/1: Clear away the traffic, Jonnop, push the crowd aside. | |
| ‘A Digger’s Tale’ in Chisholm (1951) 101: I’m breedin’ boomerangs; which is reel fun, / When I ain’t troubled by the wild Jonops / That eats me crops. | |
| ‘Mickie Mollynoo’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 39: A shine John Hop is Mollynoo. A mix-up / with the push Is all his joy. | |
| Sun. Times (Perth) 30 Apr. 3/5: All the jonnops knew he took a number ten boot. | |
| Kangaroo 317: ‘Police!’ snarled Jack. ‘Bloody Johnny Hops!’ [Ibid.] 373: It’s our boys who’ve got things in hand. And handed them over to the Hops. | |
| ‘Nocturne’ in Rose of Spadgers 56: ‘The first John ’Op / That comes,’ I sez, ‘can ’ave you for a gift!’. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 8 Feb. 12: The Hops were taking the shattered body out of the water. | |
| Cobbers 122: This country is that stiff with ‘don’ts’ that if you blow your nose in the wrong pozzy some John Hop will come along and shove you in the cooler! | |
| Sun. Times (Perth) 1 Aug. 6s/3: When they attack a project of this sort the Port Jonnops are a very thorough crowd. | |
| Press (Canterbury) 2 Apr. 18: [B]eware of the ‘John Hops’ who stand no ‘rough stuff’. | |
| Capricornia (1939) 342: A sneakin’ coot of a police-boy stationed at the Compound got to hear of it and told the jonnops. [Ibid.] 399: They’ve got a good chance of getting away [...]. The jonns haven’t got on their track yet. | |
| Aus. Lang. 137: The popular Australianisms john hop, jonnop and hop. | |
| Courtship of Uncle Henry 76: Next morning when I turn up at the shop there are two John Hops there. | |
| Bobbin Up (1961) 65: The john ’ops have been nosin’ around. Some nark musta phoned them up. | |
| Holy Smoke 58: With all them jumped-up Government jokers – not to mention the john-hops – tryin’ to push y’ around? | |
| in Alone in a Mountain World 306: I’ve been a John Hop in the force. | |
| Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 John. 1. A policeman. Possibly rhyming slang for John Hop, ie cop. | |
| Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 96/1: Johnny Hopper (also John Hop) n. a policeman. | |
| Pete’s Aussie Sl. Home Page 🌐 John Hop, a John, the Johns: a cop, the cops, police. |