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hitch one wagon to a star

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wag⋅on

  [wag-uhn]
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–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.
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wagon

  1. n.
    the police wagon. : I called the wagon. It'll come and get these two thugs in about fifteen minutes.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

wagon 
1523, from M.Du. wagen, waghen, from P.Gmc. *wagnaz (cf. O.E. wægn, Mod.Eng. wain, O.S., O.H.G. wagan, O.N. vagn, O.Fris. wein, Ger. Wagen), from PIE *woghnos, from *wegh- "to carry, to move" (cf. Skt. vahanam "vessel, ship," Gk. okhos, L. vehiculum, O.C.S. vozu "carriage, chariot," Rus. povozka, Lith. vazis "a small sledge," O.Ir. fen, Welsh gwain "carriage, cart;" see weigh). In Du. and Ger., the general word for "a wheel vehicle;" Eng. use is a result of contact through Flemish immigration, Dutch trade, or the Continental wars. It has largely displaced the native cognate, wain. Spelling preference varied randomly between -g- and -gg- from mid-18c., before Amer.Eng. settled on the etymological wagon, while waggon remained common in Great Britain. Wagon train is attested from 1810. Phrase on the wagon "abstaining from alcohol" is 1904, originally on the water cart.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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