chugwagon

English

Noun

chugwagon (plural chugwagons)

1. Alternative form of chug-wagon
   • 1906, Happy Days: A Paper for Young and Old - Issues 586-611, page 6:

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

   • 1913, The Adjuster - Volume 47, page 213:

     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.

   • 1923, The Continent - Volume 54, page 857:

     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.

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

     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.