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chuck wagon

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.71 in modern English

Syllables
chuck- wag-on
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A wagon equipped with food and cooking utensils, and used to prepare meals, as on a ranch, in a lumber camp, or during a cattle drive in the latter part of the 19th century.

American usage

noun

A sandwich composed of a piece of chicken-fried steak or a breaded beef patty, with typical toppings being lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise.

Etymology

From chuck + wagon; chuck was cowboy slang for food.

Usage

Inflected Forms

chuck wagons (plural) chuckwagon (alternative) chuckwaggon (alternative)

Questions

What does chuck wagon mean?
A wagon equipped with food and cooking utensils, and used to prepare meals, as on a ranch, in a lumber camp, or during a cattle drive in the latter part of the 19th century.
Where does chuck wagon come from?
From chuck + wagon; chuck was cowboy slang for food.

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