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Police van - Wikipedia A police van (also known as a paddy wagon, meat wagon, divisional van, patrol van, patrol wagon, police wagon, Black Mariah Maria, police carrier, or in old-fashioned usage, pie wagon) is a type of vehicle operated by police forces
A complete history of the phrase paddy wagon, the surviving . . . For a word that is so firmly a part of American slang, the term “paddy wagon”—sometimes spelled as one word, “paddywagon”—has a surprisingly checkered history You know what it means It’s a police wagon, and you don’t want to end up in the back of one
Police history: What does ‘paddy wagon’ mean? Whether it originally referred to lawmen or lawbreakers, ‘paddy wagon’ is still a term for a police vehicle – usually a van – designed to accommodate a group of prisoners
paddy wagon — Wordorigins. org A paddy wagon is a police van used to transport criminals The name is commonly thought to come from an association with the Irish, because in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries a disproportionately large number of Irish were police in North American cities
paddy wagon - Urban Dictionary The term 'paddy wagon' is of English origin due to it's use to pick up drunk Irish louts (paddy's) from pub brawls It is commonly used across all prior English colonies including Canada, Australia, New Zealand and many others
PADDY WAGON Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com The specific vehicle a paddy wagon refers to is a patrol wagon, but arrested suspects and prisoners can also be variously transported in a police car, a squad car, police van, police bus (sometimes called a prison bus), or a prisoner transport vehicle