prowl car
English
Alternative forms
- prowl-car
Noun
prowl car (plural prowl cars)
- (US, dated, slang) A police patrol car.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 106:
- I said: ‘Let the prowl car pass up the hill. They'll think we moved over when we heard the siren.’
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 106:
Synonyms
- radio car
- cruiser
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