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noun
- A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
- A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pushed or pulled by human force.
- A child"s riding toy, four-wheeled and pulled or steered by a long handle in the front.
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(context, US, AU, slang) A station wagon.
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(slang) A paddy wagon.
- A truck, or lorry.
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(context, Ireland, slang) An immoral woman, slapper.
verb
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(transitive) To transport by means of a wagon.
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(intransitive) To travel in a wagon.
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proper noun
- an American political scandal (beginning with a burglary in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC in 1972) that eventually led to resignation of US President Richard Nixon
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any scandal usually involving: a) the abuse of one's own, or two or more acting-in-tandem people's own, occupational position(s) (frequently involving one or more public officials and/or involving a person or persons who significantly jeopardize the trust or resources of the public or of a major nonpublic organization " and very frequently involving one or more significant elect, elected public officials and/or involving one or more high appoint, appointed public officials); b) underhanded behavior; and c) a cover-up
- Watergate salad
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proper noun
- a member of an 18th- and 19th-century political party in Britain that was opposed to the Tories, and eventually became the Liberal Party
- an advocate of war against Britain during the American Revolution
- a member of a 19th-century US political party opposed to the Democratic Party
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- An unsettled and uncultivated tract of land left in its natural state
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| Wild West |
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proper nounwild, Wild west, West
- The western United States during the relatively lawless 19th-century era of settlement.
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(context, by extension) A place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails, especially due to a lack of regulatory oversight or an inadequate legal system.
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The CEO commented that the Russian business environment of the 1990s was the .
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