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highway patrol

noun

  1. a state law-enforcement organization whose officers safeguard the highways.
  2. a law-enforcement officer or group of officers assigned to patrol a highway.


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The Nevada trooper first told Stephen Lara the highway patrol was educating drivers “about violations they may not realize they’re committing,” and that he’d been pulled over for following a tanker truck too closely.

Hundreds of cops saluting as the bodies were rolled out with a full escort by highway patrol.

Guard soldiers in Ferguson will work “under the overall command of the Missouri State Highway Patrol.”

They decided to run all investigation over to the Mississippi Highway Patrol and get the whole damn thing out of the county.

Clark was a big, easygoing fellow, a plodder, a fifteen-year man with the highway patrol.

Inside the precinct of the Highway Patrol, officers asked each other what Woods had to hide.

He was sitting quietly on the edge of the rear seat when the Nevada Highway Patrol cars drove up next to them.

I'm going to do a couple of highway patrol cars and Doc Adams'.

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