squadrol
n.— «On a recent eight-hour shift, we rode the squadrol with Deputies Joe Lewis and Frank Matz.» —“Reporter ‘Taken for a Ride’” by Pat Englehart Daily Herald (Chicago, Illinois) June 27, 1952. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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