shopping cart

noun

1. a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.

shopping cart

noun

1. See shopping basket
   the usual US and Canadian word for shopping basket

Word History and Origins

Origin of shopping cart¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

If you suddenly discovered you’re an artist but all you have is some printer paper and a pencil you’ve had laying around the house since the last time you went to Ikea, fill up that shopping cart with these 10 essential pieces of art supplies.

From Popular-Science

You may remember that several months ago, Google told us that GoogleBot can add items to your shopping cart.

From Search Engine Land

I could pop into my neighborhood Gristedes on 97th Street and fill my shopping cart with Pop-Tarts, milk, you name it, and, at check-out, marvel at the savings.

From Fortune

It can be something as simple as adding extra items to a shopping cart at the pharmacy to distract from something that might bring unwanted judgement.

From MIT Technology Review

For example, an online retailer discovers a lot of people are shopping at their online store and adding items to their shopping cart but then abandoning the cart rather than purchasing the items.

From Search Engine Watch

Or maybe it was from the handles of a grocery store shopping cart.

From The Daily Beast

She wheels an injured boy out in a shopping cart full of watermelons.

From The Daily Beast

“I like the symbolism,” Ware says slyly before reaching for a shopping cart.

From The Daily Beast

She was pushing Suri in a shopping cart at a New York Whole Foods.

From The Daily Beast

Hughes was eventually caught in 1993 after he was spotted pushing a shopping cart containing the body of one of his victims.

From The Daily Beast