wagon

1. (US, chiefly New England) A shopping cart.New-EnglandUS

2. (rail transport) A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.Examples: "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 that to bring a train of fifty wagons under the machine, one by one, a horse would have to traverse five miles and a half."; "The total weight of goods and minerals loaded into wagons on the railways of the United Kingdom during the year 1913, the last complete period of working under normal conditions before the outbreak of war, was 372,037,000 tons, of which 299,129,000 tons, or 80.41 per cent., consisting of coal and minerals."Synonyms: railroad car, car, railway wagon, railway carriage, carriage, railtruck, truck, coach

3. (slang) Ellipsis of paddy wagon (“police van for transporting prisoners”).Examples: "I began as a patrol officer, working the wagon, squad car, and three-wheelers until 1963, when I took the detective exam."; "I changed into civies and took the two prisoners along with their fingerprints in a patrol wagon along with PTL. Howell of the Sixty-First and a Sixtieth Precinct officer. […] Sometime during the trip, in the confines of the Sixty-Sixth Precinct, a driver started beeping her horn, saying someone had jumped out of the back of the PW. The wagon driver stopped, I ran to the back and saw that my two prisoners were not in the patrol wagon."abbreviationalt-ofellipsisslang

4. (chiefly Australia, US, slang) 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.Examples: "The woman had been photographed in the driver's seat of a late-model Jeep wagon; walking across what appeared to be a large parking lot; inside her kitchen and her bedroom, blissfully unaware that her privacy was being invaded by binoculars and telephoto lenses in the hands of a slob like Thigpen."AustraliaUSabbreviationalt-ofellipsisslang

5. (Ireland, slang, derogatory) Term of abuse.Examples: "[…] 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."Synonyms: NB: All terms are usually pejorative unless stated otherwise., 304, alley cat, alleycat, amorette, amoret, amorosa, articleIrelanddatedderogatoryslang

6. (Ireland, slang, derogatory) Term of abuse.Examples: "—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."; "Well fuck yeh, yeh stuck-up little wagon."Irelandbroadlyderogatoryslang