Definition of Blue wall

1. Noun. The secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers. "The blue wall cracked when some officers refused to take part in the cover-up"

Exact synonyms: Blue Wall Of Silence, Wall Of Silence
Generic synonyms: Cover-up

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue Wall

blue straggler
blue stragglers
blue succory
blue supergiant
blue supergiants
blue swimmer crab
blue thistle
blue tit
blue toadflax
blue toe syndrome
blue tulip
blue violet
blue vision
blue vitriol
blue wall (current term)
blue wall of silence
blue walleye
blue water
blue waters
blue whale
blue whales
blue white colour selection
blue wildebeest
blueback
blueback salmon
bluebacks
bluebag
blueball

Literary usage of Blue wall

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) (1896)
"... many miles across an utterly flat plain, a long high blue wall, and above the top of that another blue wall, and behind that a third barrier. ..."

2. Light, Photometry and Illumination: A Thoroughly Rev. Ed. of "Electrical by William Edward Barrows (1912)
"... and blue wall materials and with a white ceiling and dark floor, in per cent, of the light reflected when the walls, ceiling and floor were all white. ..."

3. Proceedings by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) (1896)
"... many miles across an utterly flat plain, a long high blue wall, and above the top of that another blue wall, and behind that a third barrier. ..."

4. Light, Photometry and Illumination: A Thoroughly Rev. Ed. of "Electrical by William Edward Barrows (1912)
"... and blue wall materials and with a white ceiling and dark floor, in per cent, of the light reflected when the walls, ceiling and floor were all white. ..."

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