Sleeping Policeman Meaning

(Britain and Caribbean English, idiomatic) A speed bump.

Example: 2000 July 5, William Weir, "They're looking up 'Yankspeak' for the Oxford English Dictionary," CNN.com (retrieved 18 Sep 2007):
  We don't care much to figure out terms like "brolly" (umbrella) and "sleeping policeman" (speed bump).

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