shore patrol

1. 1.

   the military police of the navy

   Broadermilitary police

   military

Questions about shore patrol

What does shore patrol mean?

shore patrol means "the military police of the navy".

Is shore patrol a common word?

shore patrol 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.