A darkly comic Victorian British slang term for a hearse — the vehicle that carries corpses to their final resting place. The humor is characteristically morbid: a corpse is 'cold meat,' and the cart that transports it is simply a delivery vehicle for the deceased. This kind of gallows humor was common in 19th-century slang, which rarely let death pass without a wry remark.
The neighborhood kids used to dare each other to run alongside the cold meat cart as it rolled slowly down the street.
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(UK, slang, obsolete) A hearse.
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