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Expels police officer confiscating one's stuff (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

disgorges

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'expels' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to bodily activities as well as being verbs in their -s form.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'police officer confiscating one's stuff' is the wordplay.
'police officer' becomes 'ds' (short for detective sergeant).
'confiscating' is an insertion indicator.
'one's' becomes 'i's' (Roman numeral).
'stuff' becomes 'gorge' (as in gorging or stuffing oneself with food).
'is'+'gorge'='isgorge'
'ds' placed around 'isgorge' is 'DISGORGES'.

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(Other definitions for disgorges that I've seen before include "Pours forth for rigged SOS" , "Vomits" , "Hawks" .)

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