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Wagon vs Loco - What's the difference?

wagon | loco |

As a noun wagon

is .

As a verb loco is

.

wagon

English

Alternative forms

* waggon (UK)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads.
  • A freight car on a railway.
  • A child's riding toy, four-wheeled and pulled or steered by a long handle in the front.
  • (US, Australia, slang) A station wagon (or SUV).
  • (slang) A paddy wagon.
  • A truck, or lorry.
  • (Ireland, slang, dated, derogatory) (A derogatory term for a woman); bitch; slapper; cow.
  • * 1974 , in Threshold , Issues 25–27, Lyric Players Theatre, page 96:
  • “I’m not like that; I know what you mean but I’m not like that. When you said a field I nearly laughed because 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.”
  • * 1990 , Roddy Doyle, The Snapper , Penguin Group (1992), ISBN 978-0-14-017167-9:
  • pages 30–31: —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.
  • * 1998 , Neville Thompson, Two Birds/One Stoned , Poolbeg:
  • page 8: “Well fuck yeh, yeh stuck-up little wagon .”

    Derived terms

    * broom wagon * bandwagon * chuck wagon * covered wagon * fall off the wagon * fix someone's wagon * hitch one's wagon to a star * jump on the bandwagon * meat wagon * on the bandwagon * on the wagon * off the wagon * paddy wagon * station wagon * waggoner * wagon train

    Descendants

    * German: (l) * Spanish:

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To transport by means of a wagon.
  • To travel in a wagon.
  • See also

    * (wikipedia "wagon")

    Anagrams

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    loco

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl)

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (music) A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.
  • Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (colloquial) crazy
  • * 2003 , The New Yorker, 15 Dec 2003, p.56
  • You know, I’m a little loco . Kinda crazy, zany guy.
  • intoxicated by eating locoweed
  • Synonyms
    * pea struck

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (botany) certain species of Astragalus'' or ''Oxytropis , capable of causing locoism.
  • Synonyms
    * locoweed

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rail transport, informal) a locomotive
  • Anagrams

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