Paddy-wagon
noun
1.
Informal. .
noun
1.
(US & Austral, NZ) an informal word for patrol wagon
noun phrase
A police patrol wagon or van; black maria: The cooperative family was being escorted into the paddy wagon
[1930+; fr patrol wagon, perhaps influenced by the fact that many policemen were of Irish extraction, hence paddies]
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