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lunchwagon en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A small mobile vehicle that is outfitted to prepare, sell, or serve light meals and snacks to the public.
   • Northbound on Kamehameha Highway between Kane'ohe and Kahuku, you'll encounter a string of shrimp shacks, some in lunchwagons, others in roadside stands. 2004, Bonnie Friedman, Jeffrey Kennedy, Honolulu & O'ahu, page 92:
   • Oehm suggested that he might have seen Tudisco if he went outside to a lunchwagon for a cup of coffee. 1990, United States, National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 1063:
   • In 1928 after Art Cassidy left the restaurant business, his old lunchwagon rested in a lot on East Center Street in Lee. Neighborhood kids pretended it was a Pullman car. 1978, Florence Consolati, See All the People, Or, Life in Lee, page 154:

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Synonyms

lunch trailer · lunch truck