wagon
Meaning
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- A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).
- 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.
- A shopping cart.
- A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.
- 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”).
- (slang) Short for paddy wagon (“police van for transporting prisoners”).
- (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.
- (slang) A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper; (by extension) a woman regarded as obnoxious; a bitch, a cow.
- A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.
- (slang) Buttocks.
Synonyms
police van
patrol wagon
station wagon
beach waggon
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
Frequency
Hyphenated as
wa‧gon
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈwæɡ(ə)n/
Etymology
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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