Noun

(policemen)

A member of a police force, especially one who is male.

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(chemistry) A glass rod capped at one end with rubber, used in a chemistry laboratory for gravimetric analysis.

Noun

(en noun)

(informal) A man, a fellow; an ordinary man, a man on the street.

* 1930 , , 2006, Overlook Press, page 235,

The door flew open, and there was a bloke' with spectacles on his face and all round the spectacles an expression of strained anguish. A ' bloke with a secret sorrow.

* 1931 , , lyrics of 1930, 31 and 33 versions,

She messed around with a bloke named Smoky.

* 1958 , , page 281,

It was a Cockney bloke' who had never seen a cow till he came inside. Cragg said it took some ' blokes like that, and city fellows are the worse.

* 2000 , Elizabeth Young, Asking for Trouble , page 19,

As her current bloke was turning out better than expected, I didn't see much of her lately.

(UK) a man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.

An anglophone man.

(Australia) An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.

* 2000 May 5, Belinda Luscombe, “ Cinema: Of Mad Max and Madder Maximus”, Time :

‘The Bloke'’ is a certain kind of Australian or New Zealand male. ¶ Most of all, the ' Bloke does not whinge.