squad car

noun

an automobile used by police officers, equipped with a radiotelephone for communicating with police headquarters.

Also called cruise car, patrol car, police car.

Origin

1930-35, Americanism

Examples from the web for squad car

When a police squad car came, they panicked and fled.
Through the bare woods, you can glimpse a whitewashed brick house with blue shutters, and an attending squad car.
He drove around in a squad car, responded to emergencies, and broke up a fair number of brawls.
Plumb never walked toward the restaurant until after she left in the squad car.
The reserves have also purchased and equipped a squad car and a mobile communications van.
He did so through the windshield of the squad car and while driving the vehicle.
On a dark, rainy night, a patrol officer on the midnight shift sits in his squad car.