meatwagons

Noun

meatwagon (plural meatwagons)

1. A wagon for transporting meat.
   • The kettle boiled on an iron hook stuck in the ground, two rough-looking men were negotiating a horse-trade with a farmer, and a woman was telling the butcher's fortune behind his meatwagon.1890, Frank Leslie, Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly - Volume 29, page 42
2. An ambulance.
   • 'Meatwagon is here,' Warren said as the ambulance pulled up with only one headlight and a smashed grill.1990, Robert Henry, No man alone, page 110
3. A police vehicle for transporting prisoners.
   • Unmarked vehicles usually meant federal intervention. And if it didn't belong in federal interdiction, then it might be a Mafia meatwagon, which was a far worse circumstance.2010, Joseph Armstead, Krymsin Nocturnes, →ISBN, page 228
4. A vehicle for transporting the dead.
   • We trundled the old boy down the aisle, through the massive doors out into the brilliant August sunlight and into the meatwagon for the trip to the cemetery.1992, J. D. Owens, Fancy Grosse Pointe People, →ISBN, page 63