12 vs mee-maw

12

noun
  • Collectively, police or law enforcement. 

  • See also: fuck 12 

symbol
  • Used by fans of American football, positioning themselves as the 12th member of an 11-player team. 

mee-maw

noun
  • A policeman. 

  • An exaggerated mouthing of a word. 

  • A two-syllable wail. 

  • A meaningless utterance. 

verb
  • To make a two-syllable wailing noise. 

  • To make exaggerated movements with the mouth so as to be understood above a loud noise, such as that of machinery. 

How often have the words 12 and mee-maw occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )