Definition of Armored car

1. Noun. An armor-plated truck with strong doors and locks used to transport money or valuables. "The paintings were delivered to the museum in an air-conditioned armored car"

Exact synonyms: Armoured Car
Generic synonyms: Armored Vehicle, Armoured Vehicle

2. Noun. A military combat vehicle on wheels with light armor (and usually a machine gun).

Definition of Armored car

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of armoured car) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Armored Car

armonica
armonicas
armor
armor-bearer
armor-bearers
armor-clad
armor-piercing
armor-piercing shot
armor-plated
armor heart
armor plate
armor plating
armorbearer
armorbearers
armored
armored car (current term)
armored catfish
armored combat vehicle
armored dinosaur
armored fighting vehicle
armored heart
armored personnel carrier
armored personnel carriers
armored scale
armored sea robin
armored searobin
armored truck
armored vehicle
armorer
armorers

Literary usage of Armored car

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New York Times Current History (1918)
"Companies of the armored car Section, as soon as their preliminary training was ... Monster Weighing Forty Tons The new armored car concealed in this lair ..."

2. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1917)
"The remarkable efficiency of the light armored car, as demonstrated in the various ... It is obvious that the best use of the armored car is not as an ..."

3. The International Military Digest Annual by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1916)
"[A Turtle-Back armored car. Scientific American, July 17, '15. 150 words.] A resident of Lowell, Mass., has designed an armored car shaped exactly like a ..."

4. The Story of Two Wars: An Illustrated History of Our War with Spain and Our by Henry Benajah Russell, Redfield Proctor (1899)
"... armored car at Work — Funston and His Heroes—Swimming the Stream — Rafts Floated in the Face of the Entrenched Natives — Complete Success of the Assault ..."

5. American Government: A Consideration of the Problems of Democracy by Frank Abbott Magruder (1917)
"In 1894, THK FIRST armored car COMPLETED FOR THE UNITED STATES ARMY. It carries a field gun and a number of machine guns. when the strikers of the Pullman ..."

6. True Stories of the Great War: Tales of Adventure--heroic Deeds--exploits by Francis Trevelyan Miller (1917)
"The armored car can do this work under a fire that exposed men could not live in. ... An armored car crew connected with the British Naval Flying Corps has ..."

7. True Stories of the Great War: Tales of Adventure--heroic Deeds--exploits by Francis Trevelyan Miller (1917)
"The armored car can do this work under a fire that exposed men could not live in. ... An armored car crew connected with the British Naval Flying Corps has ..."

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