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View synonyms for vice squad

vice squad

[ vahys skwod ]

noun

  1. a police squad charged with enforcing laws dealing with narcotic drugs, prostitution, pornography, gambling, and other forms of vice.


vice squad

noun

  1. a police division to which is assigned the enforcement of gaming and prostitution laws
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of vice squad1

First recorded in 1905–10
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Example Sentences

He was met instead by police who arrested him and threw him into a cell belonging to the vice squad.

From BBC

Saudi Arabia defanged its once-feared religious vice squad and now allows men and women to mix in public.

According to Ms. Rowland, the theater manager was filling in at the box office that night and failed to recognize a pair of vice squad officers, refusing to let them in free.

In 1952, she was jailed when a box-office worker at a theater where she was performing failed to recognize two vice squad officers who were in the habit of attending the shows for free.

After a couple of years, she was transferred again, to the vice squad.

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