police lineup

1. 1.

   a line of persons arranged by police for inspection or identification

   Synonymslineupidentity parade

   Broaderline

   United Kingdom

Questions about police lineup

What does police lineup mean?

police lineup means "a line of persons arranged by police for inspection or identification".

What is another word for police lineup?

Close synonyms include lineup, identity parade. 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 lineup a common word?

police lineup 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.