POLICE SQUAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does police squad mean? 

• POLICE SQUAD (noun)
  The noun POLICE SQUAD has 1 sense:

1. a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime

  Familiarity information: POLICE SQUAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLICE SQUAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

police squad; squad

Hypernyms ("police squad" is a kind of...):

squad; team (a cooperative unit (especially in sports))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "police squad"):

vice squad (a police group to enforce laws against gambling and prostitution)

platoon (a team of policemen working under the military platoon system)

Special Weapons and Tactics squad; Special Weapons and Tactics team; SWAT squad; SWAT team (a squad of policemen who have been trained to deal with violent and dangerous situations)