panda car

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panda car

A police car. Primarily heard in UK. Slow down, there's a panda car up ahead!
See also: car
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • stop behind
  • stop behind (someone or something)
  • run over
  • default on
  • default on (something)
  • reach speeds of
  • reach speeds of (up to) (some amount)
  • clunker
  • to be sure
  • nudge out
References in periodicals archive
Why do they call them panda cars? They're blue and white.
SHORT STORY Tales from the Midlands; ADVENTURE MAN BY MARIA DUFFY
During the winter months, Raymond's panda car is usually parked up safely in his garage, but during the summer season, it's washed and polished weekly for its regularly jaunts out on the roads of South Wales.
Cars are the stars; Morris Minor enthusiasts are revving up for their rally at St Fagans National History Museum. Alison Young hitches a cheeky lift
TWO police officers are under investigation after romping with a woman in a panda car. They were accused of having sex with her after parking their car in a secluded spot near the Borders town of Galashiels.
PANDA-MONIUM; 2 cops quizzed over police car sex romp
A 15-year-old schoolboy was killed yesterday when the car he was in smashed into a parked Army truck while fleeing from a panda car, police said.
Boy in death crash
The policeman died after his panda car overturned as he and a colleague chased suspected joyriders through country lanes.
Tragic cop is killed in high speed chase
PC Robert Brown, 64, arrived for his final shift in a vintage Morris Minor panda car and was met by an honour guard of friends family and colleagues.
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye; PC Bob: England's longest serving cop hangs up his truncheon after 47years
90s 1992 Raiders rammed a police panda car in a stolen getaway vehicle - injuring two officers - when they were cornered at the scene of a burglary.
TODAY
They drove head-on at startled motorists as the panda car pursued them on the other side with its lights flashing and siren blaring.
Wrong-way cop chase round M25
THIS is a panda car that always brings the smile to the faces of people it passes, says owner Raymond Dawes.
A Minor distraction for visitors to museum
Max Boyce @ Torch Theatre, Milford Haven (Saturday) LIKE eating cawl from an upturned stove-pipe hat or doing bare-chested, drunken press-ups in front of a panda car of nonplussed police officers on a Friday night, Max Boyce is as Welsh as Welsh can be.
BEST COMEDY
Evenin' all WHETHER you're from the Dixon of Dock Green, Z Cars or Juliet Bravo generation, there's bound to be a panda car or jam sandwich which will make you go all nostalgic at the 2009 Classic Motor Show.
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Pictures: Jeremy Pardoe Photo ref: JP180508Car-08; PANDA CAR...
We love the car everyone hates; MOTORING: Fans turn out to hail the Allegro - the nightmare of the 1970s
He added: "Matt (Emerson- Thomas) started complaining and said 'why should he take the van out?"' Pc Bartlett said Emerson- Thomas was then handed the keys to the panda car.
Policemen brawl after driving row; Officer 'soaked in tea and cut' after patrol van dispute
As the car turned into a Ravensthorpe industrial estate Sgt Groiser saw a police sergeant he knew in a panda car.
HARRY'S A HERO AT 4
The West Midlands officer left his panda car in the reserved spot to stock up on cakes at a Greggs shop in Harborne High Street, Birmingham.
Cop nicks disabled spot to buy a bun; COP SHOPPED: Imran Rashid tool these incriminating pictures