wagons

Noun

wagon (plural wagons)

1. A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).
   • These wagons and pack-mules will include transportation for all personal baggage, mess chests, cooking utensils, desks, papers, &c.1864 June 28, T. S. Bowers (Assistant Adjutant General), “No. 51. [Special Orders No. 44.]”, in Report of the Quartermaster General of the United States Army to the Secretary of War, for the Year...
2. (New-England, US) A shopping cart.
3. A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.
   • Various methods have been suggested for effecting this transfer by a bodily removal of whole wagons; either by lifting the bodies from one set of wheels to another, or transferring the wagons, wheels and all, to some kind of truck; but practically these projects wholly fail. […] It is calculated...1846, Thornton [Leigh] Hunt, Unity of the Iron Network: Showing how the Last Argument for the Break of Gauge, Competition, is at Variance with the True Interests of the Public, 2nd edition, London...

   Synonyms:

   railroad car, car, railway wagon, railway carriage, carriage, railtruck, truck, coach

4. (Ireland, dated, derogatory, slang) A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper.
   • […] I was in a field last week with Ursula Brogan behind the football pitch. We followed Cissy Caffery there and two boys from the secondary. She’s a wagon. She did it with them one after the other, and we watched.1985, Eugene McCabe, “Roma”, in Heaven Lies about Us: Stories, 1st U.S. edition, New York, N.Y.; London: Bloomsbury, published 2004, →ISBN, page 57

   Synonyms:

   NB: All terms are usually pejorative unless stated otherwise., 304, alley cat, alleycat, amorette, amoret, amorosa, article, Athanasian wench, blowsabella

5. (Ireland, broadly, derogatory, slang) An obnoxious woman; a bitch; a cow.
   • —Don’t know. —She hates us. It’s prob’ly cos Daddy called her a wagon at tha’ meetin’. / Sharon laughed. She got out of bed. / —He didn’t really call Miss O’Keefe a wagon, she told Tracy. —He was only messin’ with yeh.1990, Roddy Doyle, The Snapper, London: Secker and Warburg, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, 1992, →ISBN, pages 30–31
6. A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.

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