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wagon

[ wag-uhn ]

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.

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

  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.
  5. British. a railway freight car or flatcar.
  6. Archaic. a chariot.


verb (used with object)

  1. to transport or convey by wagon.

verb (used without object)

  1. Also especially British, . to proceed or haul goods by wagon:

    It was strenuous to wagon up the hill.

wagon

1

/ ˈwæɡən /

noun

  1. 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
  2. a railway freight truck, esp an open one
  3. a child's four-wheeled cart
  4. a police van for transporting prisoners and those arrested
  5. an obsolete word for chariot
  6. off the wagon informal.
    off the wagon no longer abstaining from alcoholic drinks
  7. on the wagon informal.
    on the wagon abstaining from alcoholic drinks


verb

  1. tr to transport by wagon

Wagon

2

/ ˈwæɡən /

noun

  1. See Plough
    the Wagon
    the Wagon another name for the Plough

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Derived Forms

  • ˈwagonless, adjective

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Other Words From

  • wagon·less adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of wagon1

First recorded in 1505–15; from Dutch wagen; cognate with Old English wægn “farm wagon”; wain

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Word History and Origins

Origin of wagon1

C16: from Dutch wagen wain

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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. off the / one's wagon, Slang.
    1. 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.

    2. returning to an unhealthy or bad habit:

      I’m usually on a diet, but sometimes I go off my wagon.

  4. 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.

  5. 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 .

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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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