(US, slang) Among policemen, "time off from work."
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One hundred fifty-six Maid Marian Lane was a neatly kept ranch to which a one-car garage had been added.
The colossus stood for fifty-six years, till an earthquake prostrated it in 224 B.C. Its enormous fragments continued to excite wonder in the time of Pliny, and were not removed till A.D.
Although Andronicus was at that time fifty-six years old, age had not diminished his charms, and Theodora became the next victim of his artful seduction.
The fifty-six smaller parishes were grouped together in fifteen districts, each under a district board, the members of which were elected by the vestries of the constituent parishes.
Ayscough brought out an index to the first fifty-six vols.,1731-1786(1789), 2 vols., and one by J.