patrol wagon

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   van used by police to transport prisoners

   Synonymspolice vanpolice wagonpaddy wagonwagonblack Maria

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Questions about patrol wagon

What does patrol wagon mean?

patrol wagon means "van used by police to transport prisoners".

What is another word for patrol wagon?

Close synonyms include police van, police wagon, paddy wagon, wagon, black Maria. 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 wagon a common word?

patrol wagon 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.