meat wagon

noun

Slang.

1. an ambulance.

Word History and Origins

Origin of meat wagon¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

In the chaos of the battlefield, he became aware of all the moving pieces and terrible nuances: German prisoners so relieved to be out of the fighting that they’d salute when approached; the truck called the “meat wagon” which transports the dead; the “slow, steady and appalling” work of burying the fallen.

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"Any that died, they went into the other meat wagon and they were dumped in one of the villages outside," he said.

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“If you think Indian curries taste like something that could knock a vulture off a meat wagon, you do not like Indian food,” he wrote.

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If you think Indian curries taste like something that could knock a vulture off a meat wagon, you do not like Indian food.

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Subway has announced meatless meatballs, Carl’s Jr. and sister company Hardee’s have gotten on the meatless meat wagon, Dunkin’ introduced its Beyond Sausage breakfast sandwich and Burger King expanded the reach of its Impossible Whopper to all franchises.

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