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paddy wagon definition

☆ paddy wagon

Slang patrol wagon

Etymology: prob. after Paddy: see paddywhack

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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