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noun

an automobile with one or more rows of folding or removable seats behind the driver and no luggage compartment but an area behind the seats into which suitcases, parcels, etc., can be loaded through a tailgate.

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Also called, especially British, estate car.

Origin of station wagon

An Americanism dating back to 1925–30

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Apparently the filmmaker tied him to the bumper of a station wagon, asked him to run two laps—and then kept driving, zooming in on his face to capture the tension of a runner at his limits.
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To my eye, the proportions are spot-on, particularly in profile where its shape falls midway between hatchback and station wagon that's been scaled up by 20 percent.
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They rode off together in a blue station wagon, headed for Neshoba County where a church they intended to use as a “Freedom School” had been firebombed.
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I, meanwhile, lived in my station wagon and dated a 17-year-old.
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The company built shortened two-seat Mustangs, stretched four-door Mustangs, and station wagon Mustangs as prototypes that never reached production.
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Two days later, FBI agents found the burned station wagon that the volunteers had been driving.
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The blue and white station wagon was in the driveway, and when he got in behind the wheel Mark was still with him.
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One especially frantic Hasid had wrenched his wife to death while fixing his station wagon in front of all nine of his children.
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I found instead a pearl-blue station wagon with pointed tailfins.
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No top boss of any status is going to be driving a Honda station wagon around.
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So there was some with us in our car, and then the station wagon with the additional ones.
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The touring-car moved off down the road; the station wagon followed; Miss Farrar was alone.
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I exchanged the brougham and the Goddard for a station wagon and a park phæton, as more suitable for country use.
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Did you ever go back to look at that site or look at the station wagon?
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When you ran behind the picket fence after the shots were fired, did you come near the area where the station wagon was parked?
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British Dictionary definitions for station wagon

station wagon

noun

US, Canadian, Australian, NZ and Southern African a car with a comparatively long body containing a large carrying space, reached through a rear door: usually the back seats can be folded forward to increase the carrying spaceBritish term: estate car

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