prowl car
Example Sentences
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Policing was "relaxed," at best, with two officers sitting in each prowl car and driving aimlessly around the streets.
From Economist • Aug. 30, 2013
Still, it was awfully apt, as two blue-uniformed New York policemen piled out of a prowl car in front of Philanthropist Mary Lasker's Beekman Place town house at 1:05 in the morning.
From Time Magazine Archive
When it "hits" a wanted number, a bell rings, the number is automatically typed out, and the teletypist radios ahead to a second prowl car parked some 900 ft. down the road.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a big city, no prowl car can possibly lug enough warrants.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of course the prowl car braked fast and went down the exit after it.
From The Impossibles by Garrett, Randall
