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wag⋅gon

[wag-uh

–noun, verb (used with object), verb (used without object) Chiefly British.

[wag-uh

–noun

1.	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.

2.	Informal. station wagon.

3.	a police van for transporting prisoners; patrol wagon: The fight broke up before the wagon arrived.

4.	(initial capital letter) Astronomy. Charles's Wain. Big Dipper.

5.	British. a railway freight car or flatcar.

6.	a baby carriage.

7.	Archaic. a chariot.

–verb (used with object)

8.	to transport or convey by wagon.

–verb (used without object)

9.	to proceed or haul goods by wagon: It was strenuous to wagon up the hill. Also, especially British, waggon.

—Idioms

10.	circle the wagons. circle (def. 23).

11.	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.

12.	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.

13.	off the wagon, Slang. again drinking alcoholic beverages after a period of abstinence.

14.	on the wagon, Slang. abstaining from alcoholic beverages. Also, on the water wagon; British, on the water cart.

Origin:
1505–15; < D wagen; c. OE wægn wain

Related forms:

wag⋅on⋅less, adjective

Synonyms:
1. cart, van, wain, truck, dray, lorry.

Link To Waggons

wag·gon (wāg'ən)

n. & v. Chiefly British
Variant of wagon.

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