prowl car

English

Alternative forms

  • prowl-car

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Noun

prowl car (plural prowl cars)

  1. (US, dated, slang) A police patrol car.
    • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 106:
      I said: ‘Let the prowl car pass up the hill. They'll think we moved over when we heard the siren.’

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