Word.ws English Dictionary

cat wagon

cat wagon noun: a small brothel operating out of a wagon or similar vehicle, servicing travelling labourers, soldiers etc.

Noun

cat wagon (plural cat wagons)

  1. (US, historical, slang) A small brothel operating out of a wagon or similar vehicle, servicing travelling labourers, soldiers etc.
    • “Kid, I like women too, but not that way. You need time to get acquainted, drink a little, talk a little. In the cat wagon you got to get it over with and out in five minutes, no time to button your pants.”1975, Nels Anderson, The American Hobo, page 54
    • There was an uproad from the fire-eaters, who imagined they were fighting for human dignity and freedom from the northern elite, but more cat wagons were requisitioned and the complaining stopped.2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 441

Forms of cat wagon

pluralcat wagons

Questions about cat wagon

What does cat wagon mean?
Cat wagon means a small brothel operating out of a wagon or similar vehicle, servicing travelling labourers, soldiers etc.
What part of speech is cat wagon?
Cat wagon is a noun.
What is the plural of cat wagon?
The plural of cat wagon is cat wagons.

Words near cat wagon in the dictionary

  1. cat trains
  2. cat tree
  3. cat trees
  4. cat unit
  5. cat units
  6. cat wagon
  7. cat wagons
  8. cat wheel
  9. cat wheels
  10. cat whisker
  11. cat's ass

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cat wagon (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cat wagon.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cat_wagon. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.