英和和英

発音

• IPA: /blæk məˈɹaɪə/
• 韻: -aɪə

名詞

Black Maria (plural Black Marias)

1. (slang) A police van for transporting prisoners.
   • 1867, Tony Pastor, “The Upper and Lower Ten Thousand”, in Tony Pastor’s Book of Six Hundred Comic Songs and Speeches:

     The Upper Ten Thousand have plenty of cash—
     At the Central Park, on the “Drive,” cut a dash;
     They have their light wagons, fast horses beside;
     In the free “Black Maria” the Lower Ten ride.

   • 1979, Paul Simonon, “The Guns of Brixton”, performed by The Clash:

     You know it means no mercy / They caught him with a gun / No need for the Black Maria / Goodbye to the Brixton sun

同意語

• paddy wagon

関連する語

• black and white

参考

• Thesaurus:police vehicle

参照

• Michael Quinion (2004), “Black Maria”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, →ISBN.
• “Black Maria n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present