Slang terms for police vehicles
Automobiles
Here is a list of slang terms for law enforcement vehicles and other emergency vehicles:
Generic
- Black and white
- Boxer shorts (in greek slang) because there are always 2 testicles inside
- Bubblegum Machine
- Cherry top
- Civic Cruiser (coined in the game Need for Speed: Most Wanted)
- Cop car
- Cruiser
- Donut Cruiser
- Emergency vehicle
- Five-O
- Fuzzmobile
- Ghost car (unmarked police car)
- Jam sandwich
- One time
- Panda car
- Patrol car
- Pigmobile
- Po
- PoPo (shortened form of Pissed-Off Police Officer)
- Polar Bear (Coined in the movie "Smokey and the Bandit" refers to CHP)
- Police cruiser
- Police car
- Police interceptor
- Police vehicle
- RMP
- Rollers
- Slick top
- Squad car
- Twelve
Ambulance
- Box
- Bus
- Meat Wagon (US)
- Medical transport unit
- Paramedic station wagon
- Paramedic truck
- Paramedic van (vanbulance)
- Rig
- White car (Hong Kong)
Police bicycle
- Police bike
- Police motorcycle
- Bike Gods
- Bacon on a bicycle
Police SUV
- K-9 unit
- Police Emergency Wagon
- Police 4X4
- Rural police car
- Rhino (coined in the game Need for Speed: Most Wanted)
Police van
- Paddywagon
- Prison bus
- Divvie van (short for Divisional van)
- Meat Wagon (UK)
- Pig-pen vehicle (Hong Kong)
SWAT van
- Black Maria
- SWAT bus
- SWAT truck