scout car

noun

1. a fast, lightly-armored military vehicle equipped with guns and used chiefly for reconnaissance.

scout car

noun

1. a fast lightly armoured vehicle used for reconnaissance

Word History and Origins

Origin of scout car¹

An Americanism dating back to 1940–45

Example Sentences

And it was a little tike of a Boy Scout, in my grey scout car, who did it—and that without orders!

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Seated beside Jack, therefore, under the protective hood of the scout car, was little Tom Binns.

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"Signal that he was watching a grey scout car of the Red army, going north," said Jack, with a laugh.

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Behind it, after a stunned moment of surprise and silent inaction, thundered the other car, a scout car of the Blue army.

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Jack had led the hostile scout car into the most hopeless sort of a trap.

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