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car clouts

car clouts is the plural of car clout.

Meaning of car clout

Noun

car clout (plural car clouts)

  1. (US, colloquial) The crime of breaking into an automobile.
    • Yesterday's pleasant weather should have brought an increase in certain felonies — purse snatches, street holdups, car clouts, convenience-store stickups, ATM rips. There was no logical reason why crime should be down […]2006, Michael A. Graham, The Snow Angel

Questions about car clouts

What is car clouts the plural of?
Car clouts is the plural of car clout.

Words near car clouts in the dictionary

  1. car cemetery
  2. car chase
  3. car chases
  4. car clout
  5. car clouting
  6. car clouts
  7. car coat
  8. car coats
  9. Car Colston
  10. car crash
  11. car crash song

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