radio car

noun

1. an automobile, especially a police car or taxi, equipped with a two-way radio for communication.

Word History and Origins

Origin of radio car¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

“Just wanted the radio car brought around if you were coming because I’m lazy. Lol,” he wrote in a text message cited in the report.

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“The overwhelming majority will never see the inside of a jail or a radio car or have anything to do with the criminal justice system, unless they’re victims,” Villanueva said.

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The shootings immediately called to mind the assassinations of two officers in 2014, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, who were sitting in their radio car when a gunman approached and opened fire.

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Mr. Adams began as a transit police officer, patrolling the subway or in a radio car, later using his associate degree in data processing to work on the department’s computer programs that tracked crime.

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“If TV producers are really interested in showing the complexities of 21st-century policing, they need to look at more than just the cop in the radio car or the detective in the squad room. Show us the cowardly politicians who send cops out to enforce their laws and implement their policies, then leave us holding the bag when the inevitable public backlash arrives,” he said, also noting careerist desk managers, “the anti-police mob” and other forces.

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