vice squad

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   a police group to enforce laws against gambling and prostitution

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Questions about vice squad

What does vice squad mean?

vice squad means "a police group to enforce laws against gambling and prostitution".

Is vice squad a common word?

vice squad 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.