noun a police motorcycle. Originally of a light motorcycle used by police before the introduction of the PANDA CAR. Generally presumed to come from Noddy, the character created by Enid Blyton (1897–1968), in turn named after 'a simpleton', but that would better describe the driver than the vehicle and Noddy drove a car; more likely to be derived from obsolete Irish noddy (a one-horse conveyance) with just a hint of Enid Blyton UK, 1964