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alley light

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noun

  1. a searchlight mounted on a public-safety vehicle or other motor vehicle for sideways lighting.

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Individual departments can also use WindyGrid -- one example, cited previously by Goldstein, involves the platform detecting a relationship between the theft of garbage carts and alley light outages.

From Chicago Tribune • Jun. 25, 2013

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