police car

Questions about police car

What does police car mean?

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

What is another word for police car?

Close synonyms include cruiser, police cruiser, patrol 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 police car a common word?

police car is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.