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A police van (also known as a paddywagon , Black Maria or police carrier ) is a type of vehicle operated by police forces. Police vans are usually employed for the transportation of prisoners ...
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Paddy (2) Look up Paddy at Dictionary.com; "Irishman," 1780, slang, from the pet form of the common Irish proper name Patrick (Ir. Padraig). It was in use in black slang by 1946 for any "white person." Paddy wagon is 1930, perhaps so called because many police officers were Irish. ... What does it mean? How did it originate?
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The use of "paddy wagon" as a slang term for a police van dates back to the 1920’s, and seems to have originated in either New York City or Philadelphia, cities which had both large Irish immigrant populations and largely Irish-American police forces during that period.
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Dear Mr. Morris: Last Sunday afternoon, I heard a discussion on a radio talk show about the use of the term "paddy wagon". The host insisted that the term is a terrible ... It is true that "Paddy," a familiar form of the common Irish name Padraic (or Patrick) was used in the 19th and early 20th centuries as a generic,
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All Irish people are called Paddy, ... The prefixes originate from the time before surnames, when a boy would be given a first name, and known as "first name, son of father's name." Mac or Mc is abbreviated from the Irish word for son. For example, Eamonn McKenna means "Eamonn, son of Kenna." Similarly, the "O'" prefix...
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You're on the right track with the Irish connection, but it's not the great numbers of Irish policemen in America who gave the paddy wagon its name.
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The key to this was the so-called Gestapu coup attempt which, in the name of supporting Sukarno, in fact targeted very precisely the leading members of the army's most loyal faction, the Yani group.6 An army unity meeting in January 1965, between "Yani's inner circle" and those (including Suharto) who "had grievances of...
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