squad car

noun

1. an automobile used by police officers, equipped with a radiotelephone for communicating with police headquarters.

Word History and Origins

Origin of squad car¹

An Americanism dating back to 1930–35

Example Sentences

But he failed to turn on his squad car’s emergency lights and sirens.

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I can get close to it but there is a squad car parked right by it.

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"I can get close to it but there is a squad car parked right by it."

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The Sheriff’s Department admitted in a news release that the gun might have actually fallen out of a squad car — thunk — onto the streets of Los Angeles.

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The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is investigating how an assault rifle went missing from — and potentially fell out of — the trunk of a squad car in South L.A.

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Related Words

• patrol car