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wagon
[ wag-uhn ]
noun
- any of various kinds of four-wheeled vehicles designed to be pulled or having its own motor and ranging from a child's toy to a commercial vehicle for the transport of heavy loads, delivery, etc.
- Informal. station wagon.
- a police van for transporting prisoners; patrol wagon:
The fight broke up before the wagon arrived.
- (initial capital letter) Astronomy. Charles's Wain.
- British. a railway freight car or flatcar.
- Archaic. a chariot.
verb (used with object)
- to transport or convey by wagon.
Wagon
1/ ˈwæɡən /
wagon
2/ ˈwæɡən /
noun
- any of various types of wheeled vehicles, ranging from carts to lorries, esp a vehicle with four wheels drawn by a horse, tractor, etc, and used for carrying crops, heavy loads, etc
- a railway freight truck, esp an open one
- a child's four-wheeled cart
- a police van for transporting prisoners and those arrested
- See station wagon
- an obsolete word for chariot
- off the wagon informal.no longer abstaining from alcoholic drinks
- on the wagon informal.abstaining from alcoholic drinks
verb
- tr to transport by wagon
Derived Forms
- ˈwagonless, adjective
Other Words From
- wagon·less adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of wagon1
Idioms and Phrases
- fix someone's wagon, Slang. to get even with or punish someone:
He'd better mind his own business or I'll really fix his wagon.
- hitch one's wagon to a star, to have a high ambition, ideal, or purpose:
It is better to hitch one's wagon to a star than to wander aimlessly through life.
- off the / one's wagon, Slang.
- again drinking alcoholic beverages after a period of abstinence:
His failure to show up at work is one more sign that he’s fallen off the wagon again.
- returning to an unhealthy or bad habit:
I’m usually on a diet, but sometimes I go off my wagon.
- on the wagon, Slang. abstaining from a current or former bad habit, as smoking, overeating, excessive drinking of alcoholic beverages, or taking drugs: Also on the water wagon; British, on the water cart.
She's been on the wagon for a month, now, so please don't offer her a drink.
- circle the wagons. circle ( def 23 ).
More idioms and phrases containing wagon
see fix someone's wagon ; hitch one's wagon ; on the bandwagon ; on the wagon .Example Sentences
Washington somehow won three of its first four games before the wheels fell off the wagon.
Most of these trails are old wagon roads, so they’re relatively flat and pleasant.
Then, in another photo, the boy sits in a wagon as his grandfather, in his mask, pulls him along.
In Detroit, a rumor spread that a wagon that brought a news camera into the counting center was smuggling ballots.
He would reach Miami two days later, hopping 24 rides from drivers that included a pastor, a gun-toting salesman and a mom-driven station wagon with six clamoring kids in the back.
He even looks down to address a toddler who is noisily playing in a red wagon.
Two days later, FBI agents found the burned station wagon that the volunteers had been driving.
The base resembled a wagon circle of armored vehicles with some razor wire strung around them.
The blue and white station wagon was in the driveway, and when he got in behind the wheel Mark was still with him.
They pulled the elegant wagon on a slow pace along for a block and then made a U-turn beneath the Palmetto overpass.
The little pig in the box felt himself being lifted out of the wagon.
He had come down after the wagon load, which had to be pitched on again rather more deliberately.
The challenge was accepted and the hay-wagon driven round and the trial commenced.
For an Indian to sell a horse and wagon in the San Jacinto valley was not an easy thing, unless he would give them away.
Alessandro had hard work to give civil answers to the men who wished to buy Benito and the wagon for quarter of their value.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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