the fuzz,pig,the man?

Question

does anyone know where the terms "the fuzz ,,the man ,and pig" came from when in referance to the police came from?

Answer 1

These names have been given over the years to police by those who generally are on the opposite side of the law.

Answer 2

Fuzz
Nobody knows for sure. But, as usual, that hasn’t stopped lots of people coming up with ideas. We are sure that it was originally an American expression, first recorded in the 1920s, and very popular especially in the 1930s, though it never quite took over from cop. In Britain, it was popular in the sixties, though it would now be regarded as dated slang.
This North American term first appeared in the 1920s and gained popularity in the 1930s. This slang term may be in reference to the sound of the field radios that police commonly use. It surfaced in Britain in the 1960s.

One suggestion is that it’s a variant pronunciation of fuss, this being something that policemen are prone to do over matters that fussees may consider trifling. It’s also been said that it comes from a mispronunciation or mishearing of “Feds”, that is, federal agents, which hardly seems probable.

Yet a third suggestion has been put forward by David Dalby, a specialist in West African languages, who argues that it comes from the Wolof word fas for a horse, which was taken over in a much modified form into the American slang expression fuzzy tail for a sure bet at a horse race (not to be confused with another usage of that phrase to refer to the very lowest category of vagrant or tramp), from there to a mounted policemen, and so to police in general.

Pigs:

This term was widespread during the 19th century, disappeared for a while, but reappeared during the early 20th century, and was used during the 1960s in the underground hippy culture. Oz magazine showed a picture of a pig dressed as a policeman on a front cover
If you thought the term pig arose in the 1960s, you're in for a surprise. The OED cites an 1811 reference to a "pig" as a Bow Street Runner--the early police force, named after the location of their headquarters, before Sir Robert Peel and the Metropolitan Police Force (see above.) Before that, the term "pig" had been used as early as the mid-1500s to refer to a person who is heartily disliked.

The usage was probably confined to the criminal classes until the 1960s, when it was taken up by protestors. False explanations for the term involve the gas masks worn by the riot police in that era, or the pigs in charge of George Orwell's Animal Farm.

Answer 3

Who knows, but it's fun to theorize;

Fuzz - Hundreds of annoying little things that are difficult to get off of you.

Pig - What one looked like on a five hit acid trip during a drug raid

Man - Tommy Chong was once too stoned to remember the word "incarcerating officer", so it was replaced by the shortened version of "the man that locked me up last night"

Answer 4

The best site for police slang terms and their etymology that I could find using Google is listed in my source link below. I couldn't find a definitive answer on some of the terms you listed though.

Answer 5

they came from the acid years!.... the 70's!