An older American informal term for a fire engine, dating from the era of horse-drawn apparatus.
An older American informal term for a fire engine, dating from the era of horse-drawn apparatus. The word evokes the clatter and urgency of 19th-century urban firefighting. Today it survives in nostalgic or colourful colloquial use, occasionally applied to modern fire trucks with a knowing nod to its age.
The kids pressed against the fence as the old firewagon rounded the corner, bells clanging.
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(archaic, slang) An early motorized vehicle for driving on land (such as an automobile, truck, or tractor), especially a car; horseless carriage.
(US, derogatory, obsolete) A car, seen as a source of vice or sin.
(UK) A railway wagon for carrying freight.
(US, slang, derogatory) An objectionable person; a jerk; a jackass.
(US) A fire engine.