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bandwaggon

bandwaggon is the alternative form of bandwagon.

Meaning of bandwagon

Noun

bandwagon (plural bandwagons)

  1. A large wagon used to carry a band of musicians in a parade.
  2. (figuratively) A current movement that attracts wide support.
    • Specifically, and unforgivably, she restarted the Heathrow Third Runway bandwagon, which had been stalled for more than a decade and even declared dead by most commentators.2025 February 19, Christian Wolmar, “Reeves talks of 'growth' but pays lip service to the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 35

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Forms of bandwaggon

pluralbandwaggons

Origin of bandwaggon

From band + waggon.

Questions about bandwaggon

What is bandwaggon the alternative form of?
Bandwaggon is the alternative form of bandwagon.

Words near bandwaggon in the dictionary

  1. bandurists
  2. bandurria
  3. bandurrias
  4. Bandusia
  5. Bandusian
  6. bandwaggon
  7. bandwaggons
  8. bandwagon
  9. bandwagon effect
  10. bandwagon fallacies
  11. bandwagon fallacy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bandwaggon (page history and authors); bandwagon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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