a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
n. a police van used to take suspected criminals to the police station. : The cop put the woman in handcuffs and then called the paddy wagon.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
What comes to mind would be the peace protesters who need to be forcibly carried by police officers to the paddy wagon.
Then a bunch of them jumped on me and threw me into the paddy wagon.
Appellant drove away as he noticed a paddy wagon in his rear view mirror.