squad car

English

Noun

squad car (plural squad cars)

1. (chiefly US, Ireland) A police car.
   • 1922 July 24, “Loses All his Nine Lives: Bonny, Police Mascot and Champion, Crushed by Car”, in New York Times, page 16:

     Yesterday he was sleeping in his accustomed place beneath the strong arm squad car. A new driver was on duty and he failed to look underneath.

   • 2008, 2 officers, 3 others hurt when van hits Chicago squad car," ChicagoTribune.com, 3 Jun. (retrieved 23 June 2008),

     Five people were injured, including two Chicago police officers, when a squad car collided with a minivan while responding to an emergency call.

   • 2015 March 23, Ken Foy, Robin Schiller, “Garda is quizzed over squad car hit-and-run”, in The Herald, Dublin:

     The gardai pulled in and were helping the male driver when another vehicle ploughed into the back of the patrol car. [...] Sources said that, to the shock of the arresting gardai, it later emerged that the driver that crashed into the squad car was an officer based at a garda station close to the Border.