meat wagon

Noun

 * 1)  A vehicle used for the transportation of meat, usually refrigerated and traditionally of a non-motorized type pulled by horses.
 * 2)  An ambulance.
 * 3) * 2003, Ed Masley,"Cynics' Spain tour ends with injury to lead singer," post-gazette.com (Pittsburgh, US), 27 Jan. (retrieved 25 July 2008):
 * So they had to take me from there in an ambulance. . . . I remember my dad and uncle used to call them meat wagons.
 * 1)  A police van for transporting prisoners; a paddy wagon.
 * 2)  A vehicle for transporting dead bodies; a hearse.
 * 3) * 2000, Stephen Hunter, "Varicose Vain" (film review of The Crew), Washington Post, 25 Aug., p. C01:
 * The old man wandered away from his retirement home, dropped dead on the beach and was picked up by the meat wagon and sent to the morgue.
 * 1)  A police van for transporting prisoners; a paddy wagon.
 * 2)  A vehicle for transporting dead bodies; a hearse.
 * 3) * 2000, Stephen Hunter, "Varicose Vain" (film review of The Crew), Washington Post, 25 Aug., p. C01:
 * The old man wandered away from his retirement home, dropped dead on the beach and was picked up by the meat wagon and sent to the morgue.
 * 1)  A vehicle for transporting dead bodies; a hearse.
 * 2) * 2000, Stephen Hunter, "Varicose Vain" (film review of The Crew), Washington Post, 25 Aug., p. C01:
 * The old man wandered away from his retirement home, dropped dead on the beach and was picked up by the meat wagon and sent to the morgue.
 * The old man wandered away from his retirement home, dropped dead on the beach and was picked up by the meat wagon and sent to the morgue.