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  • noun Plural form of paddywagon.

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Examples

  • Last Tuesday, I personally witnessed an intense confrontation between 1,400 riot-geared police, assisted by sheriffs, overhead helicopters, barricades, and paddywagons.

    Ramesh Srinivasan: Occupying Physical Space Ramesh Srinivasan 2011

  • Last Tuesday, I personally witnessed an intense confrontation between 1,400 riot-geared police, assisted by sheriffs, overhead helicopters, barricades, and paddywagons.

    Ramesh Srinivasan: Occupying Physical Space Ramesh Srinivasan 2011

  • Last Tuesday, I personally witnessed an intense confrontation between 1,400 riot-geared police, assisted by sheriffs, overhead helicopters, barricades, and paddywagons.

    Ramesh Srinivasan: Occupying Physical Space Ramesh Srinivasan 2011

  • And after the game, being escorted by riot police into police paddywagons I had the luck to get a bus instead as we were verbally assaulted with just about every Spanish epithet you can dream up was just the definition of unpleasant.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Reel Fanatic 2009

  • And after the game, being escorted by riot police into police paddywagons I had the luck to get a bus instead as we were verbally assaulted with just about every Spanish epithet you can dream up was just the definition of unpleasant.

    "District 9" or "Julie & Julia"? Neither ... "Ponyo" for me! Reel Fanatic 2009

  • Barricaded in bank at G-20 protest, behind two lines of police and their paddywagons.

    CNN Transcript Apr 1, 2009 2009

  • Men and women - and the occasional child - were caught up in the sweep, hustled into waiting paddywagons, and dispatched back to the sheriff's station.

    William Fisher: It's About a Lot More Than The 3 A.M. Phone Call 2008

  • "Several paddywagons left and they had two very large prison buses and those are gone now."

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • "Several paddywagons left and they had two very large prison buses and those are gone now."

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • "Several paddywagons left and they had two very large prison buses and those are gone now."

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

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