flying wedge

American  

noun

1. a fast-moving group of law-enforcement officers in a compact, wedge-shaped formation that can infiltrate crowds or protect someone effectively.

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Example Sentences

Among other changes, they eliminated the flying wedge and allowed the forward pass, which made the game marginally safer.

From Los Angeles Times

It looks like a flying wedge - known in the trade as a blended-wing design.

From BBC

Mass momentum plays like the flying wedge were also common.

From Slate

The setup pushed the tone forward — brass and woodwinds became a flying wedge, breaking through the line of the proscenium — a brawny, punchy sound that was exploited to the hilt in a brisk, brash reading of Dvorak’s Op.

From Washington Post

“In a police dragnet I would have been killed. I’ve known that since I got here four years ago; this isn’t the first time the Voigt-Kampff test has been given to me. In fact I rarely leave this building; the risk is enormous, because of those roadblocks you police set up, those flying wedge spot checks to pick up unclassified specials.”

From Literature