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bait car

bait car noun: a vehicle used as a decoy by police to help apprehend car thieves, often equipped to be tracked by GPS and to be disabled remotely.

Noun

bait car (plural bait cars)

  1. A vehicle used as a decoy by police to help apprehend car thieves, often equipped to be tracked by GPS and to be disabled remotely.
    • The whole premise behind the police department's "bait car" program is to entice an auto thief to take the rigged automobile and get caught.2008, "Be careful what you steal," The Norman Transcript (Oklahoma), 7 Feb. (retrieved 29 Feb. 2008)

Forms of bait car

pluralbait cars

Questions about bait car

What does bait car mean?
Bait car means a vehicle used as a decoy by police to help apprehend car thieves, often equipped to be tracked by GPS and to be disabled remotely.
What part of speech is bait car?
Bait car is a noun.
What is the plural of bait car?
The plural of bait car is bait cars.

Words near bait car in the dictionary

  1. bait boats
  2. bait box
  3. bait boxes
  4. bait bug
  5. bait bugs
  6. bait car
  7. bait cars
  8. bait dog
  9. bait dogs
  10. bait money
  11. bait up

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