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meat wagon
noun- an ambulance US, 1925
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 47, 1945
- “How’d he get it?” “For christsake. How would I know? I don’t run the meat wagon.” — Audie Murphy, To Hell and Back, p. 96, 1949
- The meat wagon rolled on, and Sissy, unlike young Mozart, was rewarded by not so much as a lump of sugar for her experiment. — Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, p. 43, 1976
- — Peter Chippindale, The British CB Book, p. 156, 1981
- And a few minutes later, the ambulance, popularly called “the meat wagon.” — Odie Hawkins, Amazing Grace, p. 22, 1993
- a coroner’s ambulance US, 1942
- I saw a cluster of people on the sidewalk at the front door. There was a city meat wagon on the street. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Airtight Willie and Me, p. 60, 1979
- The squad-car guys didn’t know for sure he’s dead, so they call EMS. EMS comes, they take one look, call the meat wagon. — Elmore Leonard, City Primeval, p. 30, 1980
- By the time I gave it to the meat wagon, the ants had bought it. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 133, 1993
- A shitload of Hollywood division black-and-whites showed up, and the meat wagon removed Miller Treadwell and Special Agent Norris Stensland, D.O.A. — James Ellroy, Hollywood Nocturnes, p. 191, 1994
- medical evacuation transport, especially a helicopter US
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 137, 1991
- a prison-service or police vehicle used for confining and transporting prisoners UK, 1954
- So when we got swaged [swag] into the meatwagon I asked another geezer the strength of him — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 8, 1958
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 76, 1996
- [T]he police arrive, driving their meatwagons on to the green in the middle of the fighting. — Martin King & Martin Knight, The Naughty Nineties, p. 109, 1999
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