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Black maria   /blæk mərˈiə/   Listen
Black maria

noun
1.
Van used by police to transport prisoners.  Synonyms: paddy wagon, patrol wagon, police van, police wagon, wagon.
2.
A form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades.  Synonym: hearts.






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"Black maria" Quotes from Famous Books



... who is rather of the satirical turn, as one is likely to be who has driven the "Black Maria," and has thus found out that the world is all a fleeting show; "yes, you've got so much genus in your upper story that it has made a hole in the crown of your hat, so it can see what sort of weather is going on out of doors—and it's your genus, I reckon, that's peeping out of your ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 • Various

... guardians of order had been prepared however. One of them stepped to the corner and blew his whistle, and a minute later came the shriek of a siren, and round the corner came swinging the city's big patrol-wagon, the "Black Maria". The crowd gave way, and one by one the prisoners were thrust in. One of them, "Wild Bill", feeling himself for a moment released from the grip of his captors, raised his voice, shouting through ...
— Jimmie Higgins • Upton Sinclair

... train. The naval officer on the armoured train had to stand behind the engine-driver with a revolver to make him go where he was wanted to. The sitting-up cases on No.— got out and fled three miles down the line. A Black Maria shell burst close to and killed a man. They are again "urgently needing" A.T.'s; so I hope we are ...
— Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 • Anonymous

... some fun in a long Saturday's drive to Coney Island, and round by Fort Hamilton and the Narrows," muttered Jack, as the horses toiled up a steep in Central Park; "this here is about as amusing as riding in a black maria would be." ...
— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston



Words linked to "Black maria" :   short whist, van, long whist, whist



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