Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A police car.
WordNet
n. a car in which policemen cruise the streets; equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters [syn: cruiser, police cruiser, police car, prowl car, squad car]
Usage examples of "patrol car".
He eased the patrol car onto the police lane and turned west once again.
Mike ran toward the rear of his vehicle, shouting to the officers in the patrol car behind him, “.
The emergency lights of the patrol car blinked blue-white-blue in the reflection in the prostitute's eyes.
Then I drove three miles east towards the suburbs and left the car on some waste ground and locked it and had to walk nearly five blocks before I saw a militia patrol car and stopped it and told the driver I was Viktor Shokin, the man they were looking for.
Caine broke off as a Security patrol car turned the corner and glided to a stop in front of the bar.
She was yelling and chopping down the picket fence as a patrol car pulled up.