rural n.
(US) a country policeman.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 10 Sept. n.p.: At the ground they were disturbed by the ‘rurals’ [...] on reaching Shere Mere another policeman was on the look-out . |
In phrases
1. to have sex in the open-air.
| Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 195: A […] stargazer, which can also be a hedge-whore – that is one who goes stargazing on her back and receives an Anglo-Indian back. In other words, she has done a rural. |
2. to urinate or defecate in the open.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | DSUE (8th edn) 317/2: C.20. |