APB

American  

[ey-pee-bee] / ˈeɪˈpiˈbi /

noun

1. all-points bulletin: a broadcast alert from one police station to all others in an area, state, etc., as with instructions to arrest a particular suspect or suspects.

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APB British  

abbreviation

1. all-points bulletin

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Example Sentences

To say whether any of this actually occurs would be a spoiler, though it would be unfair not to issue an APB that the series’ intersection with plausibility occasionally adds up to its own kind of crime scene.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Gaines has a key supporter in the art collector James Whitner, the chief executive of the Whitaker Group, the company behind the fashion labels A Ma Maniere, Social Status and APB.

From New York Times

Week 1422 was essentially an APB for book, movie and song puns; the contest asked for them to be “collaborations” resulting in the tweaked name.

From Washington Post

No need to put out an APB, though, because the suspect, former homicide detective Roger Golubski, who retired in good standing and with a full pension from the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department, isn’t in hiding.

From Washington Times

The APB now needs to collect about 500,000 signatures over the next six months to be able to register for next year's municipal elections.

From BBC