blue flu

noun

: a sick-out staged by police officers

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Holt gets to use some profanity that NBC won’t air before realizing something: The blue flu didn’t raise the crime rate. —

Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2021

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Etymology

from the color of a police uniform

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1967, in the meaning defined above

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blue flu

noun

: an organized absence from work by police officers on the pretext of sickness that is staged for the purpose of protest

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