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noun British.

a garbage truck.

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Origin of dust cart

First recorded in 1770–80

Words nearby dust cart

dust-bathe, dustbin, Dust Bowl, dust bowler, dust bunny, dust cart, dust catcher, dust cell, dustcloth, dust coat, dust counter

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How to use dust cart in a sentence

Estee Lauder has not crumbled to dust because the perfect brown face of Joan Smalls represents it.
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Moreover, trucks, dust, and boomtown stress are the effects of any large-scale industrial activity.
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That is a lot of air pollution, noise, and yet more kicking up of dust.
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“I have full faith that this will happen,” Williams says, prepping her fairy dust for a flurry of happy thoughts.
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Or maybe it was from the handles of a grocery store shopping cart.
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In the aperture of the window, amid piles of paper, stood a rickety old table, covered with dust.
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It was little better than coal dust, and would not carry a ball fifty paces to kill or wound.
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Never mind the dust; I've turned it on to make believe we're going tremendously fast.
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl
He laid it upon the floor, and took out a plaster mask, and brushing and blowing off the saw-dust, held it up.
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When the smoke and dust cleared away nothing stirred on the whole of that piece of ground.
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British Dictionary definitions for dust cart

dustcart

/ (ˈdʌstˌkɑːt) /

noun

a road vehicle for collecting domestic refuseUS and Canadian name: garbage truck

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