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Black Marias

Black Marias is the plural of Black Maria.

Meaning of Black Maria

Noun

Black Maria (plural Black Marias)

  1. (slang) A police van for transporting prisoners.
    • The Upper Ten Thousand have plenty of cash—
      At the Central Park, on the “Drive,” cut a dash;
      They have their light wagons, fast horses beside;
      In the free “Black Maria” the Lower Ten ride.1867, Tony Pastor, “The Upper and Lower Ten Thousand”, in Tony Pastor’s Book of Six Hundred Comic Songs and Speeches
    Synonyms:
    paddy wagon

Questions about Black Marias

What is Black Marias the plural of?
Black Marias is the plural of Black Maria.

Words near Black Marias in the dictionary

  1. black maple
  2. black maples
  3. Black Maria
  4. Black Mariah
  5. Black Mariahs
  6. Black Marias
  7. black mark
  8. black market
  9. black marketeer
  10. black marketeering
  11. black marketeers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Black Marias (page history and authors); Black Maria (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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