Wagon

Noun

 * 1) A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads.
 * 2) A child's riding toy, four-wheeled and pulled or steered by a long handle in the front.
 * 3) 🇺🇸 A station wagon (or SUV).
 * 4)  A paddy wagon.
 * 5) A truck, or lorry.
 * 6)  ; bitch; slapper; cow.
 * 7) * 1974, in Threshold, Issues 25–27, Lyric Players Theatre, page 96:
 * “I’m not like that; I know what you mean but I’m not like that. When you said a field I nearly laughed because I was in a field last week with Ursula Brogan behind the football pitch. We followed Cissy Caffery there and two boys from the secondary. She’s a wagon. She did it with them one after the other, and we watched.”
 * 1) * 1990, Roddy Doyle, The Snapper, Penguin Group (1992), ISBN 978-0-14-017167-9:
 * pages 30–31: —Don’t know. ——She hates us. It’s prob’ly cos Daddy called her a wagon at tha’ meetin’. ¶ Sharon laughed. She got out of bed. ¶ —He didn’t really call Miss O’Keefe a wagon, she told Tracy. —He was only messin’ with yeh.
 * 1) * 1998, Neville Thompson, Two Birds/One Stoned, Poolbeg:
 * page 8: “Well fuck yeh, yeh stuck-up little wagon.”

Verb

 * 1)  To transport by means of a wagon.
 * 2)  To travel in a wagon.

Adjectives for Wagon
ancient; lumbering; serviceable; jolting; creaking; wobbling; emigrant; clanking; broken-down; hooded; ramshackle; vengeful.

Verbs for Wagon
brake—; cart on—; convoy—; dispatch—; draw—; harness to—; hitch—; journey by —; —conveys; —creeps along; —draws up; —jolts; —jounces; —rattles; —rolls; — transports.

Thesaurus
Black Maria, Conestoga wagon, barge, boat, bus, caravan, carryall, cart, coach, covered wagon, cruiser, dray, ferry, float, haul, haywagon, lighter, paddy wagon, patrol car, patrol wagon, police van, prairie schooner, prowl car, raft, ship, sled, sledge, squad car, truck, van, waggon, wain, wheelbarrow

Alternative forms

 * waggon

Etymology
From wagen, waghen, from. Compare wain.

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: (ʕárba)
 * Catalan: carro, cotxe
 * Chinese: 運貨馬車 (yùnhuòmǎchē)
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 荷馬車 (にばしゃ, nibasha)


 * Korean: 짐마차 (jimmacha)
 * Latin:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, căruță
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: vagn, kärra
 * Taos: łòtúna


 * Catalan: cotxet
 * Finnish: kärry


 * Navajo:

Derived terms

 * broom wagon
 * bandwagon
 * chuck wagon
 * covered wagon
 * fall off the wagon


 * fix someone's wagon
 * hitch one's wagon to a star
 * jump on the bandwagon
 * meat wagon
 * on the bandwagon


 * on the wagon* off the wagon
 * paddy wagon
 * waggoner

Descendants

 * German:

Anagrams

 * gowan
 * wonga

Noun

 * 1) car (a railway carriage, a nonpowered unit in a railroad train)

Etymology
From waggon:, from  wagen:. The pronunciation was likely influenced by French wagon:, which was also borrowed from English.

Noun

 * 1) a railway carriage (note that the word voiture is preferred for passenger transport)

Etymology
From waggon:, from  wagen:.

Noun

 * 1) car (a railway carriage, a nonpowered unit in a railroad train)