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wagon

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Noun

  1. A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).
  2. Abbreviation of toy wagon; A child's riding toy, with the same structure as a wagon (sense 1), pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front.
  3. A shopping cart.
  4. A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.
  5. Ellipsis of dinner wagon (“set of light shelves mounted on castors so that it can be pushed around a dining room and used for serving”).
  6. Ellipsis of paddy wagon (“police van for transporting prisoners”).
  7. Ellipsis of station wagon (“type of car in which the roof extends rearward to produce an enclosed area in the position of and serving the function of the boot (trunk)”); (by extension) a sport utility vehicle (SUV); any car.
  8. Term of abuse: A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper.
  9. Term of abuse: An obnoxious woman; a bitch; a cow.
  10. A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.
  11. Buttocks.

Verb

  1. To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.
  2. To travel in a wagon.

Proper noun

  1. A bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky, said to resemble a ladle or cart. It is part of the constellation Ursa Major and includes the stars Mizar, Dubhe, and Alkaid.

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