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bait cars

bait cars is the plural of bait car.

Meaning of bait car

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)

Questions about bait cars

What is bait cars the plural of?
Bait cars is the plural of bait car.

Words near bait cars in the dictionary

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

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