Wagon (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. 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.
  2. station wagon.
  3. a police van for transporting prisoners; patrol wagon: The fight broke up before the wagon arrived.
  4. Charles's Wain.
  5. a railway freight car or flatcar.
  6. a baby carriage.
  7. a chariot.
verb (used with object)
  1. to transport or convey by wagon.
verb (used without object)
  1. to proceed or haul goods by wagon: It was strenuous to wagon up the hill.
Idioms
  1. circle (def. 23).
  2. to get even with or punish someone: He'd better mind his own business or I'll really fix his wagon.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
noun
  1. 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
  2. a railway freight truck, esp an open one
  3. a child's four-wheeled cart
  4. a police van for transporting prisoners and those arrested
  5. mainly US and Canadian See station wagon
  6. an obsolete word for chariot
  7. no longer abstaining from alcoholic drinks
  8. abstaining from alcoholic drinks
verb
  1. to transport by wagon
noun
  1. the Wagon another name for the Plough
Wagon (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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