BORDER PATROL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does border patrol mean? 

• BORDER PATROL (noun)
  The noun BORDER PATROL has 1 sense:

1. a group of officers who patrol the borders of a country

  Familiarity information: BORDER PATROL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BORDER PATROL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of officers who patrol the borders of a country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("border patrol" is a kind of...):

patrol (a group that goes through a region at regular intervals for the purpose of security)

Meronyms (members of "border patrol"):

border patrolman (someone who patrols the borders of a country)