Definitions for patrol

patrol pa·trol

Spelling: [puh-trohl]
IPA: /pəˈtroʊl/

Patrol is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in patrol (aloprt).

Definitions for patrol

noun

  1. a person or group of persons assigned to patrol an area, road, etc.
  2. an automobile, ship, plane, squadron, fleet, etc., assigned to patrol an area.
  3. Military. a detachment of two or more persons, often a squad or platoon, detailed for reconnaissance or combat.
  4. the act of patrolling.
  5. patrol wagon.
  6. (in the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts) a subdivision of a troop, usually consisting of about eight members.

verb (used with object)

  1. to maintain the order and security of (a road, beat, area, etc.) by passing along or through it.

verb (used without object)

  1. (of a police officer, soldier, etc.) to pass along a road, beat, etc., or around or through a specified area in order to maintain order and security.

Origin of patrol

1655-65; French patrouille (noun), patrouiller (v.) patrol, originally a pawing (noun), to paw (v.) in mud; derivative (with suffixal -ouille) of patte paw; -r- unexplained

Examples for patrol

Possibly, after all, the man was merely a patrol from some outlying station.

The men in the canoe were surely keen of eye, and they must be a patrol.

Brinsley stepped up to the passenger side of the patrol car, raised a silver Taurus semi-automatic pistol and began firing.

Scarcely a night went by without its patrol or ambulance case.

Lewis and the men he was with were given a goat and chicken that they were expected to kill and eat while on patrol.

On Southland, McKenzie played Ben Sherman, a patrol officer on the mean streets of Los Angeles.

I set off with all speed, and when I arrived there was a Prussian patrol at the cottage.

“They just walk around, they ride in their patrol cars, and they just pass by,” he said.

I'll tell you what you might do, Chance: you might patrol the roads on the edge of town.

But uniformed guards do not patrol the halls of even the highest-risk units.

Word Value for patrol
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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