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Plainer (noun) means a police officer who wears ordinary clothes instead of a uniform.

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A police officer who wears ordinary clothes instead of a uniform.

"The plainer, he was from the Marine police station on Anderson Street and Davin or Devine or something was his name — said nothing." — Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic (2022)

"Three pandas were parked round the edge of the wee swing park, lights spinning, flashing blue on a huddle of plainers over by the iron roundabout." — Alan Parks, Bloody January (2018)

"A guy and a girl make ideal plainers; nobody gives them a second thought; people just assume they're a couple." — Niall Illingworth, Hard Rain (2022)

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