Z car

See also: Z-car

English

Etymology

The cars' number plates began with the letter Z.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Z car (plural Z cars)

  1. (slang, Australia) An official government car, especially a Comcar.
    • 1980s, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies Newsletter, numbers 13-18, page 21:
      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.
    • 2024, Barry Giles, A Piece of the Action: STEM++ Adventures Below, On, Above and Beyond Planet Earth:
      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.

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