carful
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8.2
- noun
:
carga de coche
- A carful of excited children rushed out to see the parade.
Examples
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It's a carful.
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Someone like all the other girls who picked you up after band practice, or who drove a carful of you and your hysterically giggling friends to the mall, sitting up front alone like a poker-faced chauffeur in a pea jacket.
Fiction book (2000) -
They poured a little rum into their cans of Coke, cruising from one end of town to the other, calling out the window at a carful of passing teenage girls, revving the engine at the stoplights.
Fiction book (1995) -
The Afghanistan Museum is open to the public on Saturdays and to private groups by appointment, and on a Friday in late January, Bucherer is busily wrapping up an interview with a Swiss newspaper while dealing with a carful of wooden furniture that an Afghan donor dropped off that morning.
Academic text (2002) -
We managed to fit a carful of camping gear into the trunk.
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After the game, a carful of fans cheered as they drove down the street.
Synonyms
9
2.9
A large number of people or things that fill a car
1
3.4
An amount of goods that fills a van
1
2.7
An amount that fills a truck
1
4.5
A very large amount, like enough to fill a wagon
1
3.0
A full load that fills a cart
An amount that fills a wagon
The amount that fills a container
How Full
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Carful is made of car and -ful, where car is a vehicle and -ful means 'full of', the same idea you see in handful or cupful. So a carful is the amount of things that fills a car.