noun
General Slang
garage queen
· noun · EMS / fire / automotive
The ambulance that spends more time in the shop than on the road.
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Definitions
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An ambulance (or fire apparatus) that's constantly out of service for repairs. You see the rig more often on jacks than on a run. Crews dread getting assigned to it because half your shift is paperwork explaining why you're down.
“Medic 7 is back in the shop again — that thing's a proper garage queen.”
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In car-enthusiast use: a show-quality vehicle kept pristine and almost never driven. Polished weekly, started monthly, raced never.
“His '69 Camaro is a garage queen — six miles on it since the restoration.”
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garage queen In A Sentence
Medic 7 is back in the shop again — that thing's a proper garage queen.
His '69 Camaro is a garage queen — six miles on it since the restoration.
Origin & Usage
Borrowed from car culture, where 'garage queen' means a vehicle babied and rarely driven. EMS flipped it: same vehicle, different reason — it's broken.
Variants
shop queen
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