Definitions for wagons

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wagons wag·on

Spelling: [wag-uh n]

IPA: /ˈwæg ən/

Wagons is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in wagons (agnosw).

Definitions for wagons

noun

1. any of various kinds of four-wheeled vehicles designed to be pulled or having its own motor and ranging from a child's toy to a commercial vehicle for the transport of heavy loads, delivery, etc.
2. Informal. station wagon.
3. a police van for transporting prisoners; patrol wagon:
4. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. Charles's Wain.
5. British. a railway freight car or flatcar.
6. a baby carriage.
7. Archaic. a chariot.

Idioms

1. circle the wagons. circle (def 23).
2. fix someone's wagon, Slang. to get even with or punish someone:
3. hitch one's wagon to a star, to have a high ambition, ideal, or purpose:
4. off the / one's wagon, Slang. again drinking alcoholic beverages after a period of abstinence: returning to an unhealthy or bad habit:
5. on the wagon, Slang. abstaining from a current or former bad habit, as smoking, overeating, excessive drinking of alcoholic beverages, or taking drugs: Also, on the water wagon; British, on the water cart.

verb (used with object)

1. to transport or convey by wagon.

verb (used without object)

1. to proceed or haul goods by wagon: Also, especially British, waggon.

Origin of wagons

1505-15; Dutch wagen; cognate with Old English wægn wain

Examples for wagons

The base resembled a wagon circle of armored vehicles with some razor wire strung around them.

Si sed: "Yas; counted 'em on the wagon, counted 'em off agin, and counted 'em when I made 'em."

“Early on, back when [de Blasio] was just on the school board, we saw him as someone we could hitch our wagon to,” Cantor said.

More than anything, party elites want to hitch their wagon to someone who can win, and someone they can trust.

Sami's bundle was thrown into the wagon and the boy seated on it.

The horses were hitched to the wagon, which still contained the tent and fittings.

After a week passed in which Lohan ignores Johnson, the star confessed to “screwing up” and falling off the wagon.

Even those young evangelicals who still have qualms about gay marriage can find friends outside the wagon circling.

"I shall say just how it all happened, that we quarreled, and upset the wagon," said Sami calmly.

"You are housed but just in time, my young friends," said the master of the wagon.