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pushcart

pushcart

6 3.4
A small cart with wheels that you push by hand to carry goods
  • noun
  • /ˈpʊʃˌkɑrt/
translation icon : carrito
  • The only culinary offerings were the street meats sizzling on pushcarts parked all around the square.
  • pushcart vendors
  • pushcarts serving food
  • pushcarts sell

Examples

  • They are hardworking and feisty women, very lively, selling scrap metal, fruit, vegetables and spices from pushcarts in the streets of the city.

  • When you've got a pushcart license, you'll never starve.

  • My mother has a pushcart.

  • Who is the best pushcart driver in all of Jamaica?

  • Austin and Felicity stop at an ice cream man with his pushcart.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Usually sold out of a pushcart, they are one of the healthiest snacks in town.

    Blog text (27)
  • Rain patted the canvas awnings and swished down the gutters where pushcart owners and street vendors haggled with housewives in the daylight hours.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Dozens of pushcarts and horse carts mingled with a few brazen automobiles to choke the thoroughfare.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Schoolboys of all nationalities, shapes, and sizes stole their breakfasts from the pushcarts, then dodged and darted around still other loaded wagons and carts.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • During the evening, the marketplace was filled with pushcarts selling fruits, vegetables, and naan.

Synonyms

cart
vspushcart
297 1.0

A small vehicle with wheels that you push or pull to carry things

is specialized for market and street use rather than all wheeled carriers
truck
vspushcart
  • US
72 3.0

Small cart with two wheels and handles for moving heavy boxes

is meant for sellers in markets and on streets, not mainly heavy lifting
handcart
vspushcart
3 3.1

A small wheeled cart pushed by hand to carry things

is mainly used in markets and on streets rather than for general goods
hand truck
vspushcart
  • US
3 2.9

A small cart with two wheels and handles for moving heavy things

is used for street market sales rather than for tilting heavy loads
barrow
vspushcart
  • UK
1 6.2

A small cart with one wheel and two handles for carrying things

is mainly for market and street vending rather than small manual loads
applecart
vspushcart
  • Archaic
5.8

A small cart that a street seller uses to sell apples and other fruit

focuses on selling in markets and on streets rather than just carrying goods

How Big

truck
  • US
1.0
wagon
88 1.0
pushcart
6 3.4
handcart
3 3.1

Surface Forms

pushcart singular
pushcarts plural

Morphology

pushcart = push + cart (transparent) = push + cart

A straightforward compound of 'push' + 'cart'; the meaning (a cart that is pushed) is directly inferable.

Etymology

The word pushcart is simply the two words push ('to move by using force') and cart ('a small vehicle with wheels'), so it names a small cart you move by hand, like the carts market sellers use.