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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/ ˈ·Éæɡə²Ô /
noun
- the Wagonanother name for the Plough
wagon
2/ ˈ·Éæɡə²Ô /
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
- ˈ·É²¹²µ´Ç²Ô±ô±ð²õ²õ, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlogs From
- ·É²¹²µî€ƒo²Ô·±ô±ð²õ²õ adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog 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
Iron Age experts now have evidence that people 2,000 years ago had four wheel wagons as well as two wheel chariots.
"People were going to the wagons to put the rubbish in themselves, which you shouldn't do," she said.
“I was like, I’m gonna just start hopping on this wagon, too. I started taking meals, doing what I do, the next morning I’m eating good at 7 in the morning with the other kids.â€
She said the team had agreed to put extra wagons on but it was so busy it had become dangerous.
"They were put on the back of a wagon, and then they drove away with them and came back and started putting new slabs on the roof, just like that."
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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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