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
Followed that duffer into this trap like a pup trailing a meat wagon.
From The Auto Boys' Quest by James A. (James Andrew) Braden
He shrugged disgustedly, ordered the wicker basket from the meat wagon and had the old woman carried out.
From The Old Die Rich by Horace Leonard Gold
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