meat wagon
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.83 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A vehicle used for the transportation of meat, usually refrigerated and traditionally of a non-motorized type pulled by horses.
Example Sentences
- "The firing of a truck load of meat and two cases of assault enlived the strike of the meat wagon drivers yesterday."
- "He began his career as an itinerant meat wagon driver who sold cut beef to farmers and working-class families along a regular route."
- "She tried not to be flattered, knowing this rake could talk a dog off a meat wagon."
- "So they had to take me from there in an ambulance. . . . I remember my dad and uncle used to call them meat wagons."
- "It was a little past ten that night when his nurse, Sylvia of the Bedpans, came tiptoeing in with sleeping pills on a little tray and told him that his friend, Detective Leary, had just been delivered to the emergency room in a meat wagon."
- "Most of the time this proved but a temporary respite, and when he was too far gone he went into the meat wagon, at which time he dispossessed the most robust looking of the riders."