border patrol

1. 1.

   a group of officers who patrol the borders of a country

   Broaderpatrol

Questions about border patrol

What does border patrol mean?

border patrol means "a group of officers who patrol the borders of a country".

Is border patrol a common word?

border patrol is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.