meatwagon
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
noun
noun
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Teacher 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."
- "How to Win Friends and Influence People — Dale Carnegie I stayed away from this book for a long time, just because of the title. First of all, it sounded like I would be a con artist by the time I finished, able to talk a dog off a meatwagon."
- "'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."
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Law.