meat-wagon

meat-wagon (plural meat-wagons)

1. Alternative form of meat wagon
   1. A wagon for transporting meat.
      • 1916, New Zealand Parliament. House of Representatives, Australia Parliament House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 250:

        They are not even meat-wagons. They are open trucks, specially fitted up with a roof and sides and seats and windows and lamps.

      • 2006, Roger Horowitz, Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, Transformation, →ISBN:

        Forty years later a similar appeal led to the establishment of a Harlem public market on a site previously "indifferently supplied" by "meat-wagons" that visited on an occasional basis.

   2. An ambulance.
      • 2014, Robert Leslie Bellem, Dan Turner Hollywood Detective, →ISBN:

        “Flag your diapers over here to the Vocapex studio and bring along a meat-wagon. I'll be waiting for you on Stage Three. Yolande Adaire just got herself opened like a book.”

   3. A police vehicle for transporting prisoners.
      • 2013, Mario Reading, The Antichrist Trilogy, →ISBN:

        Sergeant Spola eased himself up from the back seat of his police meat-wagon.

      • 2014, David Barry, Willie the Actor, →ISBN:

        In the stifling atmosphere of the meat-wagon, Bill attempted conversation with the taciturn guard. 'This will be my third visit to Sing Sing. '

      • 2015, Jeremy Cameron, Vinnie Got Blown Away, →ISBN:

        First time in a meat-wagon. Gave it out I was at risk. Only time I ever went in a meat-wagon on that, all the other times it was society was at risk. They reckoned.

   4. A vehicle for transporting the dead.
      • 2012, William L. DeAndrea, The Hog Murders, →ISBN:

        The professor took pity on him. “Of course, of course. I have no further use for the remains. Inspector?” “Nah, get him out of here.” The meat-wagon boys got busy, and Benedetti went on.

      • 2013, John Sanford, A Man Without Shoes, →ISBN:

        The blood had faded, and the meat-wagons had hauled away the entrails and the amputations, and the souvenir-hunters had long since picked over and pocketed the buttons, the buckles, the odds and ends of battle, but the black guns were still here and their spare rounds still neatly stacked near the limbers, ....

      • 2015, Stephen Marley, Dread Dominion, →ISBN:

        To one side, the remaining meat-wagon was operating its mechanical scoop and shovelling the bits and pieces of the Tittering into the refrigerated interior of the morgue vehicle.

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