hostile vehicle

English

Alternative forms

• hostile-vehicle

Noun

hostile vehicle (plural hostile vehicles)

1. (usually attributive) a vehicle being used as an improvised weapon, intending to ram people or structures or deliver a bomb
   • 2017 Australia-New Zealand Counter-Terrorism Committee "Hostile vehicle guidelines for crowded places"

     Recent terrorist incidents and violent extremist propaganda demonstrate that hostile vehicle attacks continue to be of interest to violent extremists globally

   • 2024 September 12, Oliver Wainwright, “Total bollards: the iconic ‘eco-Blade Runner’ roundabout that became a grim £132m ‘abomination’”, in The Guardian:

     there are some new benches (which also double up as hostile-vehicle barriers)