paddy wagon meaning and definition

paddy wagon meaning

I nickname given to a vehicle police use to transport prisoners. The name came from the New York Draft riots of 1863. The Irish at the time were the poorest people in the city. When the draft was implemented it had a provision for wealthier people to buy a waiver. The Irish rioted, and the term Paddy wagon was coined.

paddy wagon meaning

A police wagon used for hauling criminals. Often due to the stereotype of Irish (Paddys= Pattys= Patricks) being arrested for public intoxication. Also due to the high number of Irish men employed as police officers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries

paddy wagon meaning

a police vehicle in which criminals are taken away in(from paddy, police officer, which comes from the fact that many police officers are of Irish decent)

paddy wagon meaning

The van driven by the police, to pick up unruly teens out getting drunk in public places, after the town curfew, used to bring the teens to the police station, usually for the night.

paddy wagon meaning

means "P. D. Wagon"modern: Van or truck used for transporting prisoners.Origins of the phrase are not sinister. The origin is from the era of horse drawn box enclosed wagons employed by the Police Department, especially of New York City. These wagons had the sole identification painted on the sides, in large letters the initials P.D. When spoken the term "P.D. Wagon" easily becomes "paddy wagon".While the word "paddy" may be in modern use in derogatory ways, the development of those meanings are separate and unrelated to the "P. D. Wagon".These derogatory uses however, have led to fabricated, invented and much more complicated explanations of the phrase "paddy wagon" and while a word or phrase may develop new meanings over time, and thus become valid of themselves, that does not change the true and simple origin as a slurring of the phrase "P.D. Wagon"

paddy wagon meaning

Also used in the northern states of Australia, the wankers down south call them divvy vans

paddy wagon meaning

Paddy wagon may be used all over australia but the term "divvy van" is also used such as at cricket matchs

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Paddy Wagon Bitch meaning

A big, annoying , Ugly ass Fat girl that's a hater.

Paddywampus meaning

When two black gang bangers put a white female in between themselves and preform sexual intercourse until the woman passes out.

Paddywanker meaning

A social worker that jerks off to bestiality.

Paddy wasted meaning

Being sufficiently drunk on St. Patrick's Day.

paddywhack meaning

A word original meaning to have a somewhat large and floppy penis slapped across someones face while they are sleeping. The term has branched out in meanings including to be pwned in a video game or even in real life.

Paddywhacked meaning

To commit to do something with someone, only to appease them and not actually do.

paddy whacker meaning

A policeman's truncheon or baton. Arose from the fact that the Irish were generally on the wrong side on the law in the New World and as such were often on the wrong end of the paddy whacker.

paddywhackery meaning

The fakey, out-of-a-box Irishness that insists on the same damned songs and the same damned menu and the same damned Guinness advertisements on the wall of every Irish bar outside of Ireland. Seen in nearly every film which features a non Irish actor doing an Irish accent. Notable exceptions include Daniel Day Lewis in "In The Name of The Father" and Bradd Pitt in "Snatch".

Paddy whack the knick knack meaning

A slang term defining female masturbation.

paddywhaker meaning

spanking stick for Irishmen

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