chugwagon

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A form of chug-wagon — An early motorized vehicle for driving on land (such as an automobile, truck, tractor or steam-powered railway multiple unit), especially a car; horseless carriage.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounchugwagon (plural chugwagons)

plural chugwagons

  1. alternativeAlternative form of chug-wagon.

    And if you don't back your chugwagon off a few yards your friends will be mourning for you.

    1906, Happy Days: A Paper for Young and Old - Issues 586-611, page 6
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    I wonder if people were any safer years ago before the invention of steam and electric railway trains, chugwagons, flying machines, “improved” machinery, electric currents and the like.

    1913, The Adjuster - Volume 47, page 213

    It may be noted that Mrs. Grundy was not unduly suspicious of the automobile when it was called the “chugwagon" in the days when it went gayly out in the morning to be towed humbly home behind a peddler's wagon at night.

    1923, The Continent - Volume 54, page 857

    I had a pot full of money and I thought, well, other guys that ain't got as much dough as I got put on a front, so why shouldn't I? Sure, I could buy and sell guys that's got three homes and a couple of chugwagons.

    2006, John T. Irwin, Unless the Threat of Death is Behind Them, page 107
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