Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

z car

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.43 in modern English

Syllables: z -car
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An official government car, especially a Comcar.

Australian usage; Slang

Example Sentences

"It was hot, which did nothing for the collective irritability, until Senator Chaney turned up and suggested we use his chauffeur-driven Z car — blissfully air-conditioned."
"On the Sunday, it was a roughly 900 km drive all the way back north to Woomera. Specially for this very long run we had swapped 'our' Z car for one that had just been serviced.[…]Since it was a government car we had dockets to obtain 'free' fuel, provided we went to an Ampol service station, back then a network of Government-owned garages."

Etymology

The cars' number plates began with the letter Z.

Usage

Inflected Forms

Z cars (plural)

Phrases

Z-car

Frequently Paired Words

Z-car

Questions

What does z car mean?: An official government car, especially a Comcar.
Where does z car come from?: The cars' number plates began with the letter Z.

How to pronounce z car

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