meat wagon

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A vehicle used for the transportation of meat, usually refrigerated and traditionally of a non-motorized type pulled by horses. historical
    — The firing of a truck load of meat and two cases of assault enlived the strike of the meat wagon drivers yesterday.
  2. An ambulance. slang
    — So they had to take me from there in an ambulance. . . . I remember my dad and uncle used to call them meat wagons.
  3. A police van for transporting prisoners; a paddy wagon. slang
    — He spent the next four hours in the back of the sweltering NYPD meat wagon as police rounded up other young men.
  4. A vehicle for transporting dead bodies; a hearse. slang
    — The old man wandered away from his retirement home, dropped dead on the beach and was picked up by the meat wagon and sent to the morgue.

词形变化

meat wagons plural meatwagon alternative meat-wagon alternative
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