prowl car

English

Alternative forms

• prowl-car

Pronunciation

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Noun

prowl car (plural prowl cars)

1. (US, dated, slang) A police patrol car.
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 106:

     I said: ‘Let the prowl car pass up the hill. They'll think we moved over when we heard the siren.’

Synonyms

• radio car
• cruiser

Translations

dated terms for police patrol car

• Finnish: piiska-auto (fi), piiska (fi)
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