wagon

Meaning

1. A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).
2. Abbreviation of toy wagon; A child's riding toy, with the same structure as a wagon (sense 1), pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front.
3. A shopping cart.
4. A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.
5. Short for dinner wagon (“set of light shelves mounted on castors so that it can be pushed around a dining room and used for serving”).
6. (slang) Short for paddy wagon (“police van for transporting prisoners”).
7. (slang) Short for station wagon (“type of car in which the roof extends rearward to produce an enclosed area in the position of and serving the function of the boot (trunk)”); (by extension) a sport utility vehicle (SUV); any car.
8. (slang) A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper; (by extension) a woman regarded as obnoxious; a bitch, a cow.
9. A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.
10. (slang) Buttocks.

cart

police van

patrol wagon

station wagon

beach waggon

beach wagon

coaster wagon

police wagon

station waggon

black Maria

rairoad car

heavy and unwieldy carriage

donkey cart

ponycart

tub-cart

trumbrel

estate car tourist coach

fold-top car

box

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Frequency

Hyphenated as

wa‧gon

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈwæɡ(ə)n/

Borrowed from Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch *wagan, from Proto-West Germanic *wagn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *woǵʰnos (“wagon, primitive carriage”), from *weǵʰ- (“to transport”). Doublet of wain. Related also to way, weigh. Sense 8 (“woman of loose morals; obnoxious woman”) is probably a derogatory and jocular reference to a woman being “ridden”, that is, mounted for the purpose of sexual intercourse. The verb is derived from the noun.

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