English Explanatory Dictionary

chuck wagon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
  2. A sandwich composed of a piece of chicken-fried steak or a breaded beef patty, with typical toppings being lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise.

Word forms

chuck wagon chuck wagons chuckwagon chuckwaggon

Etymology

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

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