police cruiser

1. 1.

   a car in which policemen cruise the streets; equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters

   Synonymscruiserpatrol carpolice carprowl carsquad car

   Broadercar

   Narrowerpanda car

Questions about police cruiser

What does police cruiser mean?

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

What is another word for police cruiser?

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

police cruiser 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.