flying wedge

noun

1. a fast-moving group of law-enforcement officers in a compact, wedge-shaped formation that can infiltrate crowds or protect someone effectively.

Example Sentences

Among other changes, they eliminated the flying wedge and allowed the forward pass, which made the game marginally safer.

From Los Angeles Times

It looks like a flying wedge - known in the trade as a blended-wing design.

From BBC

Mass momentum plays like the flying wedge were also common.

From Slate

On Wednesday, the Democrats’ onside kick off an impeachment that will come to a predictable end under the cleats of Mitch McConnell’s flying wedge.

From Fox News

The setup pushed the tone forward — brass and woodwinds became a flying wedge, breaking through the line of the proscenium — a brawny, punchy sound that was exploited to the hilt in a brisk, brash reading of Dvorak’s Op.

From Washington Post