Black Marianoun [ C ]
uk/ˌblæk məˈraɪ.ə/us/ˌblæk məˈraɪ.ə/old-fashioneda police vehicle used to transport prisoners
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The police generally
- baton
- baton charge
- billy club
- booze bus
- CID
- constabulary
- escort
- fuzz
- met
- plain clothes
- police
- police department
- police force
- precinct
- the fraud squad
- the long arm of the law idiom
- the Metropolitan Police
- the RCMP
- the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- warrant
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Trucks, vans & caravans
Examples from literature
- However, the young detective had no time to ponder over the circumstance, for a rumble of wheels now announced the approach of that lugubrious vehicle, the Black Maria.
- In the Black Maria, she nodded.
- The idea of Mrs. Wells being dragged shrieking down Fifth Avenue or being carted away from her house in a Black Maria filled him with dismay.
- While I stood there waiting and staring out into the prison court-yard, there came, rolling and rumbling in, a Black Maria.
- Wonder if they've got the Black Maria outside?