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Paddy wagon
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a police vehicle, typically a van or truck, used for transporting multiple prisoners or suspects from a scene of arrest to a police station or detention facility
Example
The officers loaded the suspects into the paddy wagon after the bar fight.
Irish immigrants in New York were often taken away in paddy wagons during periods of social tension.
Officers used the paddy wagon to transport individuals involved in the organized crime ring.
During the Great Famine, paddy wagons were used to move displaced Irish peasants.
Paddy wagons were used to arrest and transport Irish workers involved in labor strikes.
