squad car

Questions about squad car

What does squad car mean?

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

What is another word for squad car?

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

squad 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.