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bandwagon
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A large wagon used to carry a band of musicians in a parade. 2 (context figuratively English) A current movement that attracts wide support.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also band-wagon , 1855, American English, from band (n.2) + wagon , originally a large wagon used to carry the band in a circus procession; as these also figured in celebrations of successful political campaigns, being on the bandwagon came to represent ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bandwagon or band wagon may refer to: A wagon which carries a band of musicians in a parade or for promotional purposes. Other uses of the term derive from this one. Bandwagon effect , "copycat" behavior Argumentum ad numerum , or the bandwagon fallacy: ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
bandwagon \bandwagon\ n. A popular trend that attracts growing support. ``when they saw how things were going everybody jumped on the bandwagon.'' A large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band. ``the bandwagon led the circus parade'' ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a popular trend that attracts growing support; "when they saw how things were going everybody jumped on the bandwagon" a large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band; "the gaudy bandwagon led the circus parade"
Usage examples of bandwagon.
The processes used by some of the commercial cloners that had jumped on the bandwagon early for profit led to an epidemic of children with severe genetic disorders.
Party less than six months ago find themselves skulking around like old winos in the side alleys of presidential politics -- first stripped of their power to select and control delegations, then rejected as delegates themselves when Big Ed took his overcrowded bandwagon over the high side on the first lap.
Holly compressed her lips, and told him coolly that, far from jumping on any bandwagons, she considered it every adult's duty and responsibility to protect the environment for those generations yet to come.
A plaintiff's attorney, he took on the black clients who had missed various legal bandwagons lead paint, tobacco, asbestos.
He'd climbed aboard the Committee's political bandwagon not because of any belief in what Rob Pierre and Oscar Saint-Just had promised the Mob but because it had offered him the opportunity for personal power, and he'd played the political game with a skillfulness which somehow managed to elude him in the field of naval tactics.
While not actually holding a season ticket on the New Age Traveller bandwagon, she had always claimed to have a palpable connection with the mystic.
Jumping on her Lutheran bandwagon as well as on the rest of her, Henry imported the Protestant Reformation into England.
Non commercial entities jumped on the bandwagon and started sewing these networks together (an activity fully subsidized by government funds).
Since there is no theoretical upper limit to the explosive yield of a thermonuclear weapon, there seem to be those in the weapons laboratories who consider making bigger bombs not only as a stirring challenge, but also as a way to mute pesky environmentalists by securing a seat for nuclear weapons on the save-the-Earth bandwagon.
But they can't get a grip on him either -- and now, less than three weeks before the convention, he is so close to a first-ballot victory that the old hacks and ward-heelers who thought they had total control of the Party less than six months ago find themselves skulking around like old winos in the side alleys of presidential politics -- first stripped of their power to select and control delegations, then rejected as delegates themselves when Big Ed took his overcrowded bandwagon over the high side on the first lap.
The way he saw it, the handicapper had been suffering from semi-blindness and mental blocks to put Tiddely Pom into the weights at ten stone seven, and all punters who didn't jump on the bandwagon instantly needed to be wet nursed.