wagon
IPA: wˈægʌn
noun
- A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).
- (US, chiefly New England) A shopping cart.
- (rail transport) A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.
- (Ireland, slang, derogatory, dated) A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper; (by extension) a woman regarded as obnoxious; a bitch, a cow.
- (mathematics) A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.
- (slang) Buttocks.
- (astronomy) A bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky, said to resemble a ladle or cart. It is part of the constellation Ursa Major and includes the stars Mizar, Dubhe, and Alkaid.
- 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.
- 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”). [A 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) A police van for transporting prisoners.]
- (chiefly Australia, US, 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. [(obsolete) A vehicle providing transport to and from a railway station.]
verb
- (transitive, chiefly US) To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.
- (intransitive, chiefly US) To travel in a wagon.
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