(US, historical) A police intelligence unit specializing in infiltrating, conducting countermeasures, and gathering intelligence on political and social groups.
(US, historical) A police intelligence unit specializing in infiltrating, conducting countermeasures, and gathering intelligence on political and social groups.
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(UK) A group of police officers who rush forward in formation so as to apprehend an individual from a crowd.
(chiefly, US, Ireland) A police car.
(US) Police who arrested beggars and homeless people.
(chiefly, US, informal, derogatory, idiomatic) A group of individuals serving as enforcers, bodyguards, assassins, and the like, especially persons hired for such a purpose and using violent, thuggish methods.
The standard American term for a police patrol car — the marked vehicle used by uniformed officers on regular patrol duties. 'Squad car' is so common in American English that it has passed from slang into standard vocabulary. Also used in Ireland. British English typically says 'police car' or 'panda car.'