词汇 | honey wagons |
词源 | honey wagons. A truck used to empty cesspools. William Martin wrote in Cape Cod, 1991: “[He] leaned against the truck, one of those big red tankers with a shit-covered hose squirming like a tail out the back and a smell that seemed to be rusting the paint from the inside. On Cape Cod they called them honey wagons.” |
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