patrol wagon
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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When the patrol wagon arrived at Central Booking, officers found Ott sleeping and had difficulty waking him, police said.
From Washington Post • Nov. 14, 2018
He was handcuffed in the patrol wagon to a lesbian and he got her a lawyer – he wouldn’t let her pay for the lawyer.
From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2015
City Hall Employee Edward Beitz pleaded with passersby for an hour before someone finally released him from a parked police patrol wagon into which he had accidentally locked himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
And then one spring afternoon in 1925, a detective calmly pushed past Mr. Stephenson's butler, found the Grand Dragon upstairs in a closet, took him away in a patrol wagon.
From Time Magazine Archive
For example, high explosives in the early part of the war were called “black Marias,” that being the slang name for the English police patrol wagon.
From “Crumps”, The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went by Keene, Louis
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