See cherrytop on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1988 -, Steve Sohmer, Favorite Son, page 425:",
"text": "And it was less than five minutes before a black-and-white turned off Wisconsin Avenue onto P Street to investigate, its spotlight sweeping back and forth and its cherrytop spinning.",
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"ref": "2012, Mark Winegardner, Elvis Presley Boulevard: From Sea to Shining Sea, Almost:",
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"ref": "2013, John Shirley, Darkness Divided:",
"text": "As a police armored car with an earthmover-blade for a battering ram smashed through the barricade by the Citibank, whirling the watery-neon shine of its cherrytop beacon over the lizard-skin asphalt, cops in armor and heavy riot gear booming out unintelligible warnings with bullhorns, firing tear gas, the rioters scattering...",
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