wagon

[ wag-uhn ]

/ ˈwæg ən /

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.

a baby carriage.

Archaic. a chariot.

verb (used with object)

to transport or convey by wagon.

verb (used without object)

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

Idioms for wagon

circle the wagons. circle(def 23).

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: She's been on the wagon for a month, now, so please don't offer her a drink. Also on the water wagon; British, on the water cart.

Origin of wagon

1505–15; < Dutch wagen; cognate with Old English wægn wain

SYNONYMS FOR wagon

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

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OTHER WORDS FROM wagon

wag·on·less, adjective

Words nearby wagon

wagner act, wagner von jauregg, wagner, richard, wagner-jauregg, wagnerian, wagon, wagon boss, wagon master, wagon roof, wagon seat, wagon soldier

Example sentences from the Web for wagon

The base resembled a wagon circle of armored vehicles with some razor wire strung around them.

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More than anything, party elites want to hitch their wagon to someone who can win, and someone they can trust.

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“Early on, back when [de Blasio] was just on the school board, we saw him as someone we could hitch our wagon to,” Cantor said.

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Eventually, when the count inside the wagon reached about 35, they took off.

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"A good steerer could have slipped past that wagon, I guess," he said slowly.

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We then walked another half-mile to a farmhouse, where a horse and wagon were procured.

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Then all was quiet in the wagon, and only the night wind moving round it.

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She had helped pull the wagon all this way, but she would not share the home they were to have at the end of the Trail.

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How great was her delight to see a goat, and two cunning little kids, cuddling down on the hay at the bottom of the wagon!

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British Dictionary definitions for wagon (1 of 2)

wagon

waggon

/ (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

British a railway freight truck, esp an open one

US and Canadian a child's four-wheeled cart

US and Canadian a police van for transporting prisoners and those arrested

mainly US and Canadian 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 of wagon

wagonless or waggonless, adjective

Word Origin for wagon

C16: from Dutch wagen wain

British Dictionary definitions for wagon (2 of 2)

Wagon

Waggon

/ (ˈwæɡən) /

noun

the Wagon another name for the Plough

Idioms and Phrases with wagon

wagon

see fix someone's wagon; hitch one's wagon; on the bandwagon; on the wagon.

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waggon

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