| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | wag·on |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  w g  n |
| NOUN: | 1. A four-wheeled, usually horse-drawn vehicle with a large rectangular body, used for transporting loads. 2a. A light automotive transport or delivery vehicle. b. A station wagon. c. A police patrol wagon. 3. A child's low, four-wheeled cart hauled by a long handle that governs the direction of the front wheels. 4. A small table or tray on wheels used for serving drinks or food: a dessert wagon. 5. Wagon The Big Dipper 6. Chiefly British An open railway freight car. | | TRANSITIVE & INTRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: wag·oned, wag·on·ing, wag·ons
To transport or undergo transportation by wagon. | | IDIOMS: | off the wagon Slang No longer abstaining from alcoholic beverages. on the wagon Slang Abstaining from alcoholic beverages. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English waggin, from Middle Dutch wagen. See wegh- in Appendix I.
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