Wagon
noun
A vehicle with four wheels, usually pulled by horses or oxen, used for transporting heavy goods.
The farmer loaded the hay onto his wagon to take to the barn.
Often appears as...
- hitch your wagon
- wagon load
noun
A van or lorry used for transporting goods or people.
The police arrived in a paddy wagon to arrest the protestors.
Often appears as...
- wagon train
- paddy wagon
noun
A child's small cart or vehicle that they can pull or ride in.
The kids had fun pulling each other in their little red wagon.
Often appears as...
- pull a wagon
- child's wagon
noun
Being committed to doing something or avoiding something, often referring to alcohol.
After his doctor's warning, he was back on the wagon and stopped drinking alcohol.
Often appears as...
- on the wagon
- off the wagon
Usage tips
Approving
Colloquial
noun
A vehicle with four wheels, usually pulled by horses or oxen, used for transporting heavy goods.
The farmer loaded the hay onto his wagon to take to the barn.
Often appears as...
- hitch your wagon
- wagon load
noun
A van or lorry used for transporting goods or people.
The police arrived in a paddy wagon to arrest the protestors.
Often appears as...
- wagon train
- paddy wagon
noun
A child's small cart or vehicle that they can pull or ride in.
The kids had fun pulling each other in their little red wagon.
Often appears as...
- pull a wagon
- child's wagon
noun
Being committed to doing something or avoiding something, often referring to alcohol.
After his doctor's warning, he was back on the wagon and stopped drinking alcohol.
Often appears as...
- on the wagon
- off the wagon
Usage tips
Approving
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Historic Use
Wagon historically refers to transport in times before engines.
Museum exhibits often include old wagons used by pioneers.
Pro Tip 2/2Horse-drawn Image
Imagine a wagon as a classic four-wheeled, horse-drawn vehicle.
The Western movie featured a covered wagon rolling across the plains.
Pro Tip 1/2Historic Use
Wagon historically refers to transport in times before engines.
Museum exhibits often include old wagons used by pioneers.
Pro Tip 2/2Horse-drawn Image
Imagine a wagon as a classic four-wheeled, horse-drawn vehicle.
The Western movie featured a covered wagon rolling across the plains.
Pro Tip 1/2Historic Use
Wagon historically refers to transport in times before engines.
Museum exhibits often include old wagons used by pioneers.
Pro Tip 2/2Horse-drawn Image
Imagine a wagon as a classic four-wheeled, horse-drawn vehicle.
The Western movie featured a covered wagon rolling across the plains.
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LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
peace and were rejected found that way the busy intersection where cars were overturned and burned where other cars were stoned where a television technician was pulled from his wagon and almost beaten to death what has changed the only thing that was done was that massive forces were
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A future beyond traffic...
wanted they would have answered we want faster horses so the answer to more cars is simply not to have more roads when America began moving west we didn't add more wagon trains we built railroads and to connect our country after World War two we didn't build more two-lane
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How Advertisers Joined...
you're not exactly sure what it is but you gotta get your hands on it too right now is station wagon savings time in the west shopping can be one of the most fun pastimes and there was even a time when shopping was good for you in fact it could have saved your life
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Protecting a Penguin...
it was very important for me when my grandmother was telling me stories when i was a small boy she told me the stories of her visits to penguin colonies a hundred years ago she used to go with horses and wagons to visit them and that left a messaging inside of me
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How to motivate people...
If they don't log in, we text them again. If they don't log in, we text them yet again. If, after three times, they still haven't verified, we notify a team of supporters and that team will call and text them to try to get them back on the wagon. No excuses.
Video examples
Jacqueline Woodson: What...
which was not actually a wagon -- and kissed the South goodbye. But here is the story within that those who left and those who stayed carried with them the history of a narrative, knew deeply that writing it down wasn't the only way they could hold on to it,
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How One Penguin Started...
Argentina, a hundred years ago. And she used to go to the coastal areas with horses and wagons to visit the penguins. She was a very special woman, I think she kind of left a deep message inside of me and a connection with wildlife and
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Stanley McChrystal:...
I walked out feeling as low as a snake's belly in a wagon rut. And I saw my battalion commander, because I had let him down. And I went up to apologize to him, and he said, "Stanley, I thought you did great." And in one sentence,
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Why it's so hard to make...
It's a reflex. We need to look for the equivalent behavioral reflexes and hitch our health care wagon to those. Turns out, though, that most conventional approaches to human motivation are based on the idea of education.
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How the world's longest...
As they dug, they installed lining rings to stabilize the tunnel behind them, making way for support wagons following each machine. Even at top speed, work had to proceed carefully.
Video examples
LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
peace and were rejected found that way the busy intersection where cars were overturned and burned where other cars were stoned where a television technician was pulled from his wagon and almost beaten to death what has changed the only thing that was done was that massive forces were
Video examples
A future beyond traffic...
wanted they would have answered we want faster horses so the answer to more cars is simply not to have more roads when America began moving west we didn't add more wagon trains we built railroads and to connect our country after World War two we didn't build more two-lane
Video examples
How Advertisers Joined...
you're not exactly sure what it is but you gotta get your hands on it too right now is station wagon savings time in the west shopping can be one of the most fun pastimes and there was even a time when shopping was good for you in fact it could have saved your life
Video examples
Protecting a Penguin...
it was very important for me when my grandmother was telling me stories when i was a small boy she told me the stories of her visits to penguin colonies a hundred years ago she used to go with horses and wagons to visit them and that left a messaging inside of me
Video examples
How to motivate people...
If they don't log in, we text them again. If they don't log in, we text them yet again. If, after three times, they still haven't verified, we notify a team of supporters and that team will call and text them to try to get them back on the wagon. No excuses.
Video examples
Jacqueline Woodson: What...
which was not actually a wagon -- and kissed the South goodbye. But here is the story within that those who left and those who stayed carried with them the history of a narrative, knew deeply that writing it down wasn't the only way they could hold on to it,
Video examples
How One Penguin Started...
Argentina, a hundred years ago. And she used to go to the coastal areas with horses and wagons to visit the penguins. She was a very special woman, I think she kind of left a deep message inside of me and a connection with wildlife and
Video examples
Stanley McChrystal:...
I walked out feeling as low as a snake's belly in a wagon rut. And I saw my battalion commander, because I had let him down. And I went up to apologize to him, and he said, "Stanley, I thought you did great." And in one sentence,
Video examples
Why it's so hard to make...
It's a reflex. We need to look for the equivalent behavioral reflexes and hitch our health care wagon to those. Turns out, though, that most conventional approaches to human motivation are based on the idea of education.
Video examples
How the world's longest...
As they dug, they installed lining rings to stabilize the tunnel behind them, making way for support wagons following each machine. Even at top speed, work had to proceed carefully.
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Quote examples
Buffalo Bill
American Celebrity
With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
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Barack Obama
American President
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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Shaun Livingston
American Basketball Player
Taking care of yourself turns into a lifestyle after you're done playing. So you don't just fall off the wagon.
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Nikki Sixx
American Musician
We all fall off the wagon. It's only one day; it's not the rest of your life. Pick yourself up and go again.
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H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
American Author
In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
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John Madden
American Entertainer
Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.
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Irwin Shaw
American Novelist
I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.
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Eric Nam
American Musician
I know people love Supreme. I never got on the wagon.
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John Lyly
English Writer
A merry companion is as good as a wagon.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Quote examples
Buffalo Bill
American Celebrity
With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
Quote examples
Barack Obama
American President
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Quote examples
Shaun Livingston
American Basketball Player
Taking care of yourself turns into a lifestyle after you're done playing. So you don't just fall off the wagon.
Quote examples
Nikki Sixx
American Musician
We all fall off the wagon. It's only one day; it's not the rest of your life. Pick yourself up and go again.
Quote examples
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
American Author
In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
Quote examples
John Madden
American Entertainer
Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.
Quote examples
Irwin Shaw
American Novelist
I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.
Quote examples
Eric Nam
American Musician
I know people love Supreme. I never got on the wagon.
Quote examples
John Lyly
English Writer
A merry companion is as good as a wagon.
Quote examples
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Example 1 of 10
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