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Noun: tow car  tow kaa(r)
  1. A truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones)
    "They called for a tow car after their car broke down on the highway";
    - tow truck [N. Amer], wrecker [N. Amer], breakdown lorry [Brit]

Derived forms: tow cars

Type of: lorry [Brit], motortruck [N. Amer], truck