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prowl car

alt. (context US dated slang English) A police patrol car. n. (context US dated slang English) A police patrol car.

WordNet
prowl car

n. a car in which policemen cruise the streets; equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters [syn: cruiser, police cruiser, patrol car, police car, squad car]

Usage examples of "prowl car".

The prowl car was parked there, at the curb, with the station wagon behind it.

The apartment house basement was filling up with uniformed prowl car cops who couldn't find anything to do.

The occupants of the first of the prowl cars coming fast from the north saw the slow-moving Buick just before the prowl car screamed around the corner into 116th Street.

They have a prowl car--at least one--floating around in the neighborhood, at all times.

Apart from the prowl car, which was moving quietly back and forth along each of the three roads that served the area, there were seven police stationed around Sugaiguntung'.

The gun was on the floor beside me, and I stank of gin, and a prowl car was booming around the corner.

There was a light on in our house, though, and a prowl car in front.

Vincennes turned them over to prowl car officers responding to shots fired and searched their rooms for evidence.

In front of the 77th Street Station, two prowl car men were scowling at a bent front fender.

He noted the prowl car's infrequent but regular passage, and also that the two cops in it never gave him a second glance.

Its driver had again spotted the police prowl car and was following at a discreet distance.

She hauled herself hand over hand back into the realm of full awareness and rested over the hood of the prowl car.

Also, he hadnt mentioned that he had no job and no prospects and that almost his last dollar had gone into paying the check at The Dancers for a bit of high class fluff that couldnt stick around long enough to make sure he didnt get tossed in the sneezer by some prowl car boys, or rolled by a tough hackie and dumped out in a vacant lot.

The older of the prowl car boys opened the door to two men in plain clothes, one of whom I already knew.