chug-chug wagon

plural chug-chug wagons

1. alternativeAlternative form of chug-wagon.

   This man upon whose breast you lean too often has a jag on; he couldn't buy the raw benzine to run your chug-chug wagon !

   1915, Walt Mason, "Horse Sense" in Verses Tense, page 75

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   Michael Louis McKinlev, the Chicago Civil Service Commission, takes his recreation in an automobile and drives the chug-chug wagon himself.

   1907, The Voter, page 49

   Get a move on you, and I'll take you out in the bubble - the automobile, the car, the chug-chug wagon, the thing we came here in, if you want to know what bubble is - and we'll scare up some breakfast.

   1919, P. G. Wodehouse, The Coming of Bill

   Perhaps fuel may have been added to this flame of hatred by the fact that the editor does not own a chug-chug wagon and probably never will be able to do so but the feeling had its origin when as a pedestrian he had been obliged to resort to flight and the protection of a telephone pole in order to escape some charging gasoline demon or has nearly seen himself whisked to the hereafter by being run over by a machine while crossing the street.

   1949, Melvin Hull Miller, A Study of the Circuit Chautauqua in Representative Michigan Communities