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radio car

American  

noun

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


Etymology

Origin of radio car

First recorded in 1920–25


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“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.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2025

“I always park exactly where I parked the radio car that night,” he said.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2018

And he shifted priorities from summons quotas and radio car patrols to shoe-leather crime prevention and enforcement.

From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2016

The veteran broadcaster co-hosted the Today programme live from a radio car It's five o'clock in the morning and John Humphrys is striding purposefully past Glastonbury's Pyramid stage.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2013

Sergeant Alvin AronofF and Patrolman Louis Angelos happened to be cruising by in their radio car when they heard shots.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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