paddy wagon
Example Sentences
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At 2 a.m., they brought them to the paddy wagon that would take them to the temporary detention facility.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2022
The Associated Press reported that Fonda was taken away in a paddy wagon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2019
“I stepped out of the paddy wagon and held my fist up,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2019
“A red car or, every so often, a paddy wagon would come around and we’d clear out. But it was like using a flyswatter on a swarm of bees,” Weiss said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 17, 2018
And they would throw us in, and old Bull would say, “Take 'em off” and they did; and we would just go in the paddy wagon singing, “We Shall Overcome.”
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
