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Definition of Police car

1. Noun. A car in which policemen cruise the streets; equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters.

Definition of Police car

1. Noun. A vehicle used by a police officer when on duty. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Police Car

Literary usage of Police car

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Final Justice: Police and Death Squad Homicides of Adolescents in Brazil by Ben Penglase (1994)
"The policemen—PM soldiers Ednei Segato and Edmilson Pereira de Carvalho, of the 14th company 9th battalion, in police car M- 19-403—saw the boys running ..."

2. Police Brutality in Urban Brazil by James Cavallaro (1997)
"At this point, Mack left the police car and entered a nearby house to make a telephone call, as a second police car approached. The policemen entered the ..."

3. Racist Violence in the United Kingdom by Carl Haacke, Human Rights Watch (1997)
"9 In July 1994, Martin K.'20 was returning home when he noticed a police car and a group of officers on the road in front of his house. ..."

4. Dead Silence: The Legacy of Human Rights Abuses in Punjab by Human Rights Watch/Asia, Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.) (1994)
"... a police car began following diem. When dicir car skidded on die turn from die main road onto die village road, Jaswinder, ..."

5. Report of the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department edited by Warren Christopher (1998)
"... for example, the complainant alleged that he had been beaten while sitting handcuffed in a police car. The file contained a photograph of the handcuffed ..."

6. Dead Man Running by Martin McGartland (2000)
"The police car came to a sudden halt and PC 2630 walked over, ... As I was put into the back of the police car and taken to the station I knew that I had ..."

7. Confessions at Any Cost: Police Torture in Russia by Diederik Lohman (1999)
"Abuse starts only when the individual gets into the police car or arrives at ... When I refused, they forcibly put me in the [police] car and took me to the ..."

8. Report to the Nation on Crime & Justice (1988)
"The annual operating cost for a police car, including gas, oil, maintenance, and repair, varied from $3000 to $13000. The factors affecting this range ..."

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