meat wagon
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of meat wagon
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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True, they were carted away from Candlestick Park in what appeared to be a meat wagon, sickened by life on the road, and thirsting for the haven of the studio.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 16, 2016
Other Marines at Al-Taqaddum were already wary of the guys who worked "the meat wagon".
From The Guardian ● May 24, 2014
This Mycah was the worst; a butcher's boy, thirteen and wild, he slept in the meat wagon and smelled of the slaughtering block.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
He, too, was on his way to market, driving a meat wagon.
From Mob Rule in New Orleans Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics by Wells-Barnett, Ida B.
Two minutes later, Mr. Bowles, driver of the meat wagon, was saying to Eleanor: “Which was it—rib or loin for Saturday, Miss Gray?”
From The Readjustment by Irwin, Will
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