cracky wagon

English

Noun

cracky wagon (plural cracky wagons)

1. (US, Western Pennsylvania) A one-horse wagon without springs.
   • 1936, August 18, The Vidette-Messenger, Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana, volume 10, Section 4, Page 16

     They knew the lineage of all the boys and girls who crowded into old cracky wagons, rode four to a horse or footed it out to the lake.

Synonyms

• democrat wagon

References

• Dialect notes, Volume 1, American Dialect Society