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Definition of meat wagon in English:

meat wagon

noun

informal

  • An ambulance or hearse.

    • ‘A Coroner van, what the doctors back at the hospital used to call meat wagons, backed in neatly, and two men got out.’

Pronunciation

meat wagon

/ˈmēt ˌwaɡ(ə)n/ /ˈmit ˌwæɡ(ə)n/