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meat wagon

noun

, Slang.
  1. 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.

He shrugged disgustedly, ordered the wicker basket from the meat wagon and had the old woman carried out.

Back to the east, near the eastern Ohio state line, Martin could hear Car 207 calling for a wrecker and meat wagon.

The hook and ladder company followed and a meat wagon, or rather a meat-wagon horse, galloped after.

Followed that duffer into this trap like a pup trailing a meat wagon.

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