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- noun Alternative spelling of
paddy wagon .
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Examples
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My favorite radio personality used the word "paddywagon," recently, to describe the police vehicle that transports groups of newly arrested prisoners.
Michele Somerville: Should Susan Sarandon Apologize For Calling The Pope A "Nazi?" Michele Somerville 2011
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Adding more police in the downtown entertainment district and enforcing a "zero tolerance" policy, which would include the use of an old-fashioned "paddywagon" to lock up offenders.
buffalonews - Home 2010
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She also remembers the "paddywagon" coming and arresting fellow picketers.
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Don, Surry: Would you please take action to remove the term "paddywagon" from the media?
unknown title 2009
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Cops started breaking fierce Drag Queens' manicured nails as they cuffed them and pushed them in the waiting paddywagon.
Adrian Margaret Brune: The New Gay Guerrillas Adrian Margaret Brune 2011
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Cops started breaking fierce Drag Queens' manicured nails as they cuffed them and pushed them in the waiting paddywagon.
Adrian Margaret Brune: The New Gay Guerrillas Adrian Margaret Brune 2011
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Cops started breaking fierce Drag Queens' manicured nails as they cuffed them and pushed them in the waiting paddywagon.
Adrian Margaret Brune: The New Gay Guerrillas Adrian Margaret Brune 2011
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Cops started breaking fierce Drag Queens' manicured nails as they cuffed them and pushed them in the waiting paddywagon.
Adrian Margaret Brune: The New Gay Guerrillas Adrian Margaret Brune 2011
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Here in New York, they don't bother with the paddywagon -- they just knock your ass over...
Wake Up and Smell the Trees: Speed Bumps Ahead BikeSnobNYC 2010
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"When they bring that wagon around," - could be the paddywagon coming to arrest her for being a hooker
The WELL: Sugaree Robert Hunter 2008
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