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police car

police car noun: an automobile used by a police officer when on duty. Usually marked with police livery; sometimes an unmarked car.

police car: an automobile used by a police officer when on duty. Usually marked with police livery; sometimes...
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Noun

police car (plural police cars)

  1. An automobile used by a police officer when on duty. Usually marked with police livery; sometimes an unmarked car.
    • Near-synonyms: patrol car, cruise car, cruiser, squad car, radio car, crime car

police car meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Arabic and Malay

police car in Hindi

automobile used by a police officer
पुलिस की गाड़ी pulis kī gāṛī, पुलिस की कार pulis kī kār

police car in Tamil

காவல் ஊர்தி

police car in Arabic

automobile used by a police officer
سَيَّارَة شُرْطَة sayyārat šurṭa

police car in Malay

automobile used by a police officer
kereta polis
More languagesFewer languages
police car in Persian
خودرُویِ پُلیس
police car in Thai
รถตำรวจ rót-dtam-rùuat
police car in Vietnamese
xe cảnh sát, xe công an

Synonyms of police car

All synonyms of police car

Forms of police car

pluralpolice cars

Questions about police car

What does police car mean?
Police car means an automobile used by a police officer when on duty. Usually marked with police livery; sometimes an unmarked car.
What is police car in Hindi?
Police car in Hindi is पुलिस की गाड़ी (pulis kī gāṛī), पुलिस की कार (pulis kī kār). See Police car meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is police car?
Police car is a noun.
What is the plural of police car?
The plural of police car is police cars.

Words near police car in the dictionary

  1. police brutality
  2. police burgh
  3. police burghs
  4. police captain
  5. police captains
  6. police car
  7. police cars
  8. police chief
  9. police chiefs
  10. police clearance certificate
  11. police clearance certificates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: police car (page history and authors); police car (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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