ice cream truck
n.— «The congressional delegation was riding in a “box-like” vehicle soldiers call the “ice cream truck,” he said.» —“Marshall OK after accident in Iraq” by Liz Fabian Macon Telegraph (Ga.) Nov. 27, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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