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meat wagon
noun
, Slang.
- an ambulance.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of meat wagon1
First recorded in 1920–25
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Example Sentences
We thought that we might have to order the meat wagon out, said Goldie.
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He shrugged disgustedly, ordered the wicker basket from the meat wagon and had the old woman carried out.
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Back to the east, near the eastern Ohio state line, Martin could hear Car 207 calling for a wrecker and meat wagon.
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The hook and ladder company followed and a meat wagon, or rather a meat-wagon horse, galloped after.
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Followed that duffer into this trap like a pup trailing a meat wagon.
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