noun
General Slang
battenburg
· noun · emergency-services
The yellow-and-blue checkerboard livery on UK emergency vehicles.
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The high-visibility checkered pattern (usually yellow and blue for police, yellow and green for ambulance, yellow and red for fire) plastered down the sides of UK emergency vehicles.
“Full battenburg, blues going — somebody's having a worse day than us.”
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battenburg In A Sentence
Full battenburg, blues going — somebody's having a worse day than us.
Origin & Usage
Developed by the Police Scientific Development Branch in the 1990s for maximum visibility. Named after Battenberg cake — the British sponge with the pink-and-yellow checker pattern.
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