meatwagon

noun5

1. •
   A wagon for transporting meat.

   • 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. — 1890
2. •
   An ambulance.

   • 'Meatwagon is here,' Warren said as the ambulance pulled up with only one headlight and a smashed grill. — 1990
3. •
   A vehicle for transporting the dead.

   • We trundled the old boy down the aisle, through the massive doors out into the brilliant August sunlight and into the meatwagon for the trip to the cemetery. — 1992
4. •
   A police vehicle for transporting prisoners.

   • Unmarked vehicles usually meant federal intervention. And if it didn't belong in federal interdiction, then it might be a Mafia meatwagon, which was a far worse circumstance. — 2010
5. •
   Alternative form of meat wagon.