hostile vehicle
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
a vehicle being used as an improvised weapon, intending to ram people or structures or deliver a bomb
Example Sentences
- "2017 Australia-New Zealand Counter-Terrorism Committee "Hostile vehicle guidelines for crowded places" Recent terrorist incidents and violent extremist propaganda demonstrate that hostile vehicle attacks continue to be of interest to violent extremists globally"
- "there are some new benches (which also double up as hostile-vehicle barriers)"
Inflected Forms
hostile vehicles (plural)
hostile-vehicle (alternative)