Definition of "pol"

Journalists and pols were cozier then. President Kennedy sipped 1945 Lafite-Rothschild at the Alsops' Georgetown home, and the Alsops dined at the White House.

1993 October 31, Maureen Dowd, “The WASP Descendancy”, in The New York Times‎

The knights-errant of politics could "tsk, tsk" all they wanted, but most experienced pols recognized that patronage was the lifeblood of their profession.

2008, Frank P. Vazzano, Politician Extraordinaire, page 174