flying squad

1. 1.

   a mobile group of trained people (police or executives or officials) able to move quickly in the case of emergencies

   Broaderteam

Questions about flying squad

What does flying squad mean?

flying squad means "a mobile group of trained people (police or executives or officials) able to move quickly in the case of emergencies".

Is flying squad a common word?

flying squad 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.