lunchwagon

plural lunchwagons

1. A small mobile vehicle that is outfitted to prepare, sell, or serve light meals and snacks to the public.

   Oehm suggested that he might have seen Tudisco if he went outside to a lunchwagon for a cup of coffee.

   1990, United States, National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 1063

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   In 1928 after Art Cassidy left the restaurant business, his old lunchwagon rested in a lot on East Center Street in Lee. Neighborhood kids pretended it was a Pullman car.

   1978, Florence Consolati, See All the People, Or, Life in Lee, page 154

   Northbound on Kamehameha Highway between Kane'ohe and Kahuku, you'll encounter a string of shrimp shacks, some in lunchwagons, others in roadside stands.

   2004, Bonnie Friedman, Jeffrey Kennedy, Honolulu & O'ahu, page 92

   Synonyms: lunch trailer, lunch truck