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Black Maria Definition


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Black Maria1
noun
    1. colloq
      A police van for transporting prisoners.
Etymology: 19c (originally US): thought perhaps to refer to Maria Lee, the landlady of a Boston lodging-house, because when the police needed help to constrain someone, they are said to have called upon the services of Maria, a very large strong black woman.




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