cherrytop

Definitions

A round, red light that is mounted on top of a police car.

Equivalents

Examples

“And it was less than five minutes before a black-and-white turned off Wisconsin Avenue onto P Street to investigate⟳, its spotlight sweeping back and forth and its cherrytop spinning.”

“But we could hear⟳ it, we were happy, and we were as unprepared as we possibly could have⟳ been for the piercing white strobe and swirling red cherrytop of the police car that swooped in from nowhere and pulled up behind us.”

“As a police armored car with an earthmover-blade for a battering ram smashed through the barricade by the Citibank, whirling the watery-neon shine⟳ of its cherrytop beacon over the lizard-skin asphalt, cops in armor and heavy riot gear booming out unintelligible warnings with bullhorns, firing tear⟳ gas, the rioters scattering...”

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