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POLICE SQUAD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime
Synonyms:
police squad; squad
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
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)
