pushcart

1. 1.

   wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels

   “he used a handcart to carry the rocks away”

   “their pushcart was piled high with groceries”

   Synonymshandcartcartgo-cart

   Broaderwheeled vehicle

   Narrowerapplecartbarrowhand trucklaundry cartserving cartshopping cart

   Partshandle

Other forms of pushcart

plural

pushcarts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pushcart

What does pushcart mean?

pushcart means "wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels".

How many syllables are in pushcart?

pushcart has 2 syllables: push-cart. The stress falls on "push".

What is another word for pushcart?

Close synonyms include handcart, cart, go-cart. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pushcart a common word?

pushcart is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.