单词 | blood wagon |
释义 | > as lemmasblood wagon blood wagon n. slang a vehicle used to transport injured people; esp. a hospital ambulance. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > ambulance ambulance1825 blood wagon1922 meat wagon1925 gurney1939 ambo1974 1922 Flight 14 34/2 ‘The old blood wagon’, as the air ambulance..was generally called. 1957 S. Moss In Track of Speed vi. 82 Out came the ‘blood wagon’ and back to the ambulance station in the paddock I went. 1969 ‘R. Petrie’ Despatch of Dove iii. 152 A full-length stretcher sledge. A blood-wagon, as the laconic skiers dub it. 1999 Scotsman (Nexis) 2 Apr. 21 So here I am, standing outside the infirmary, symbols of our all too fragile mortality shifting all around..and the distant but inexorable approach of the grimly hooting bloodwagon. < as lemmas |
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