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smoke wagons

smoke wagons is the plural of smoke wagon.

Meaning of smoke wagon

Noun

smoke wagon (plural smoke wagons)

  1. (US, archaic, slang) A vehicle that generates smoke; specifically, an automobile or a train.
    • If you gwine afoot, it'll take you about a day; if you gwine in de stage or de homneybuss, you make it in half a day; but if you get in one ob dese smoke-waggons, you be almost dar now!1852 December 25 (week ending), “Random Readings”, in Family Herald: A Domestic Magazine of Useful Information and Amusement, volume X, number 503, London: George Biggs, […], →OCLC, page 560, column 1
  2. (US, archaic, slang) A handgun, especially a revolver.
    • […] Bourcey, the blacksmith, who was fitting on a mule's shoe, returned with the shoe at the end of the tongs, and, thrusting it into the fire, began blowing the bellows. It was laughable to see the stampede among the redskins when they saw this ominous maneuver—they thought he was going to fire...1858 (date written), William P. Seville, “[June 27, 1858]”, in John W. N. Schulz, editor, Narrative of the March of Co. A, Engineers from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to Fort Bridger, Utah, and Return...

Forms of smoke wagons

alternative formsmoke-wagons

Questions about smoke wagons

What is smoke wagons the plural of?
Smoke wagons is the plural of smoke wagon.

Words near smoke wagons in the dictionary

  1. smoke towers
  2. smoke tree
  3. smoke trees
  4. smoke up
  5. smoke wagon
  6. smoke wagons
  7. smoke wrench
  8. smoke wrenches
  9. smoke-blower
  10. smoke-blowers
  11. smoke-colored pewee

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