| 词汇 | chuck |
| 词源 | chuck; chuck wagon. Food or provisions in general; a meal. The term is an Americanism first used in about 1840 and prob- ably derives from the cut of meat (beef) called chuck. The first chuck wagon was made from a surplus Civil War army wagon in 1867 by rancher Charles Goodnight. By the 1880s the term was common for a wagon carrying provisions and equipment for cooking, the Studebaker Company by then manufacturing them for $75 to $100. |
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