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Z car

Z car noun: an official government car, especially a Comcar.

Noun

Z car (plural Z cars)

  1. (Australia, slang) An official government car, especially a Comcar.
    • It was hot, which did nothing for the collective irritability, until Senator Chaney turned up and suggested we use his chauffeur-driven Z car — blissfully air-conditioned.1980s, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies Newsletter, numbers 13-18, page 21
    • On the Sunday, it was a roughly 900 km drive all the way back north to Woomera. Specially for this very long run we had swapped 'our' Z car for one that had just been serviced.[…]Since it was a government car we had dockets to obtain 'free' fuel, provided we went to an Ampol service station, back...2024, Barry Giles, A Piece of the Action: STEM++ Adventures Below, On, Above and Beyond Planet Earth

Forms of Z car

pluralZ cars

Origin of Z car

The cars' number plates began with the letter Z.

Questions about Z car

What does Z car mean?
Z car means an official government car, especially a Comcar.
What part of speech is Z car?
Z car is a noun.
What is the plural of Z car?
The plural of Z car is Z cars.

Words near Z car in the dictionary

  1. yͭ
  2. y’reyt?
  3. z
  4. Z boson
  5. Z bosons
  6. Z car
  7. Z card
  8. Z cards
  9. Z chromosome
  10. Z chromosomes
  11. Z particle

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