prowl car

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prowl car Meaning of "prowl car"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a car in which policemen cruise the streets; equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters

Synonym(s)

patrol car, police car, police cruiser, squad car

Usage(s):

  1. The boys raced away, the prowl car hurtling after themaround corner after corner, into a one-way street.
  2. In a big city, no prowl car can possibly lug enough warrants.
  3. Still, it was awfully apt, as two blue-uniformed New York policemen piled out of a prowl car in front of Philanthropist Mary Lasker's Beekman Place town house at 1:05 in the morning.
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