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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.
Synonyms: , , , , ,
- 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/ ˈæɡə /
noun
- the Wagonanother name for the Plough
wagon
2/ ˈæɡə /
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
- ˈɲDzԱ, adjective
Other Word Forms
- ɲo· 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
The delaying tactics meant that wagons were stopped from carrying out their rounds and only about 10% of Birmingham's regular daily bin collections were being completed.
Speaking on Thursday, McMahon said 120 wagons had completed their rounds on the day, compared with about 20 a week ago.
As residents' frustrations have increased about the situation, focus fell on the tactics being used by picketers and demonstrators to delay non-striking crews and their wagons from leaving depots.
Time might heal all wounds for the embattled mayor, and the Democratic Party establishment could re-circle the wagons around her like it did in 2022.
Birmingham City Council said on Tuesday morning: "All of our waste wagons have been deployed from our three depots citywide this morning."
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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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