A low-paid rent-a-cop with attitude. A thug cheaply employed as a private security guard who struts like a wannabe cop. A uniformed goon or dickhead with a badge.

Examples include: nightclub bouncers and public transport inspectors.

Just like items available from the Two Dollar Shop, the two dollar cop is easily paid for but badly put together and unsafe because it does not meet the normal quality assurance standards.

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods