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. the usual US and Canadian word for shopping basket

Word History and Origins

Origin of shopping cart¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

People would sometimes leave their shopping carts from a nearby Ralphs grocery store beside the entrance, not seeming to notice it at all.

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Browsers with advanced task-performing “agents” can click and type in your tab to complete tasks like filling a shopping cart.

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Next to the pit, where at least some vegetation appeared to have been used as fuel, was a mattress, shopping cart and tarp.

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If it was, the North Carolina program would be compelling, and not a sad, three-wheeled shopping cart.

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Like how a child might say “Wheeee!” while being pushed around in a shopping cart.

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