pushcart
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈpʊʃˌkɑrt/
:
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
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They are hardworking and feisty women, very lively, selling scrap metal, fruit, vegetables and spices from pushcarts in the streets of the city.
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When you've got a pushcart license, you'll never starve.
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My mother has a pushcart.
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Who is the best pushcart driver in all of Jamaica?
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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
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1.0
A small vehicle with wheels that you push or pull to carry things
72
3.0
Small cart with two wheels and handles for moving heavy boxes
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3.1
A small wheeled cart pushed by hand to carry things
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2.9
A small cart with two wheels and handles for moving heavy things
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6.2
A small cart with one wheel and two handles for carrying things
A small cart that a street seller uses to sell apples and other fruit
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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.