shopping cart
Americannoun
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shopping carts
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of shopping cart
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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Baby left in shopping cart in 1972 reunites with women who found her.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 13, 2026
He walked over to an empty shopping cart and strained to flip it over onto its side.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026
Anastasiia Samofal, a 27-year-old translator from the second floor, taped her 22-pound power bank to an old shopping cart to haul it to the tent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026
The woman who confronted her was completely outraged, banging her shopping cart into her and saying, “What a what a thing to wear to Ralphs.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
Searching the lower cabinets, he found two six-packs of bottled water, which he put into the bottom of the shopping cart.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
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