paddy wagon

NOUN
  1. van used by police to transport prisoners
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How To Use paddy wagon In A Sentence

  • Would the Paris police allow Gallimard and Song Liling alone together in a paddy wagon?
  • They arrested the peaceful marchers, put them in paddy wagons, and charged them with disorderly conduct.
  • Yes, in those days, riding in the "Black Maria," as they used to call the paddy wagon, meant more than it does today. Rachel Shteir: June in Paris
  • “Something that will convince me not to vanquish your butts or call the paddy wagon,” Paige said. The Queen’s Curse
  • the term jerry rigged's been addressed, but as to paddy wagon, somehow most people don't realize it refers to irish people, I only know cuz I live in Boston with tons of irish folk. Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #139 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
  • Then we called the paddy wagon, and I gave the order to arrest them. Oral History Interview with Laurie Pritchett, April 23, 1976. Interview B-0027. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
  • For the next two hours, the entire area was crawling with dozens of police vans, squad cars, riot troops and paddy wagons.
  • It had been an honest mistake, though, the paddy wagon men believing he was dead or dying.
  • He kicked out his leg, tripping Padlin who tumbled into the paddy wagon.
  • The teenagers quit fighting when five squad cars and a paddy wagon pulled up.
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