squad n.
1. a group of prostitutes.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Memoirs (1995) III 174: On her joining my squad, she told me in what elegance the printer had kept her. |
2. (US black) a gang or group of friends.
| [ | | To James Smith in Works (1842) 24/1: Nae ferly tho ye do despise The hairum-scarum, ram-stam boys, The rattling squad]. |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Street Talk 2 50: That’s my squad over there. | |
| Call of the Weird (2006) 192: They would send a goon squad to [...] finish him off ‘execution-style with a dirty twenty-two’. | |
| Adventures 215: [of a hip-hop crew] ‘My man's name is Chuck D,’ he said, ‘and the squad’s Public Enemy.’. | |
| (ed.) UNC-CH Campus Sl. Spring 2016. |
3. (US police) a police car.
| When Corruption Was King 45: When I rode the squad by myself, I [...] made some unbelievable arrests. | |
| Brotherhood of Corruption 66: I cuffed him, led him back to the squad, and put him in the rear seat. |
In derivatives
involving a large number of people.
 | ‘Shut Up’ 🎵 They roll deep, I roll squaddy / Got about 25 goons in my posse. |
In phrases
(US campus) to do something as a group.
| (ed.) UNC-CH Campus Sl. Spring 2016 9: SQUAD UP — cooperate with members of one’s group to achieve a goal: ‘Let’s squad up this afternoon to go to the mall’. |