Dark slang for an ambulance, leaning into the morbid reality that emergency vehicles sometimes transport people who don't make it.
Dark slang for an ambulance, leaning into the morbid reality that emergency vehicles sometimes transport people who don't make it. It's the kind of grimly humorous nickname that emergency services workers, police, and people with a dark sense of humor might use. Not exactly something you'd say to comfort someone whose family member just got loaded into one, but as gallows humor goes, it communicates the high stakes of emergency medicine with blunt efficiency.
The paramedics joked grimly that their body box had seen more action this weekend than the whole previous month.
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(slang) An ambulance.
(slang) An ambulance.
Slang for an ambulance, used in British English. The name is starkly descriptive — associating the vehicle with the emergencies it attends. Sits in the same register as other blunt emergency-service slang, often used by paramedics, hospital staff, or people comfortable with dark humor about medical situations.
Another piece of dark slang for an ambulance, emphasizing its association with severe injury and death. Like 'body box,' it's the kind of grim nickname used by first responders, dark-humor enthusiasts, and people who deal with mortality professionally. The term suggests the vehicle carries people who are in genuinely dire shape. It's not affectionate or ironic — it's bluntly honest about what ambulances sometimes transport.
(slang) An ambulance.