squad car

plural squad cars

1. IrelandUSA police car.

   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.

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   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.

   1922 July 24, “Loses All his Nine Lives: Bonny, Police Mascot and Champion, Crushed by Car”, in New York Times, page 16

   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.

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