meatwagon
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3ADJ.
behind, soon
MEATWAGON + NOUN
truck
PREP.
from, from
Definitions
noun
Alternative form of meat wagon.
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.
The obliging young husband returned with the cheering intelligence that the broilers would be forthcoming as soon as the meatwagon horse returned from his supper. Seemingly, however, the butcher's hungry steed lingered long over his evening meal, for it was almost ten before he paused at the Maitlands' unpretentious gate.
Alternative form of meat wagon.
'Meatwagon is here,' Warren said as the ambulance pulled up with only one headlight and a smashed grill.
He gets the walk-ins, I drive the meatwagon and fetch home the ones like you.
Alternative form of meat wagon.
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.
Get them off the door and into a meatwagon. They're almost certainly involved.
Alternative form of meat wagon.
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.
The coroner came and went. We watched them load the gruesome body bag into the meatwagon.
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3The 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.
WiktionaryThe obliging young husband returned with the cheering intelligence that the broilers would be forthcoming as soon as the meatwagon horse returned from his supper. Seemingly, however, the butcher's hun
WiktionaryTeacher and student may eat lunch together at a Burger Chef or buy a sandwich from the “meatwagon”—the catering truck that pulls into the school yard at lunch time.
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