patrol car

Questions about patrol car

What does patrol car mean?

patrol car means "a car in which policemen cruise the streets; equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters".

What is another word for patrol car?

Close synonyms include cruiser, police cruiser, police car, prowl car, squad car. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is patrol car a common word?

patrol car 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.