prowl car
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of prowl car
An Americanism dating back to 1935–40
Example Sentences
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Policing was "relaxed," at best, with two officers sitting in each prowl car and driving aimlessly around the streets.
From Economist ● Aug. 30, 2013
Radio Actor Donn Reed, who originated the show, spends his nights riding a Culver City, Calif, prowl car to make on-the-spot recordings of police investigations, arrests and interrogations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mayor Hugh Addonizio crisscrossed the riot area in an unmarked prowl car.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
He caught a down car and got out just as the first prowl car came sirening its way into the side street curb.
From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various
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