cart

plural carts

1. A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, often with two wheels on one axle, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.

   The grocer delivered his goods by cart.

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   We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.

   1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

   Synonyms: kart

2. A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.
3. InternetA shopping cart.

present singular third person carts · participle present carting · participle past carted · past carted

1. transitiveTo carry or convey in a cart.

   "You had better cart in your crops! To-morrow it'll be snowing!"

   1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 259

2. informaltransitiveTo carry goods.

   I've been carting these things around all day.

3. transitiveTo remove, especially involuntarily or for disposal.

   Everything was carted off to the dump by Buddy.

   2012, Paul Lee, Vignettes, →ISBN, page 197

   2 more examples

   On August 4, 1927, Della was carted away to the Norwalk State Hospital, suffering from acute myocarditis

   2001, Donald Spoto, chapter 2, in Marilyn Monroe: The Biography, page 18

   Africans themselves practised slavery and an organised trade carted off African slaves to Middle Eastern countries while Europeans were still huddling in caves.

   2012, Lindsay Rae, Ashley Clements, Sarah Marland, World Poverty for Dummies, →ISBN

4. obsoletetransitiveTo expose in a cart by way of punishment.

   She to intrigues was ev'n hard hearted: She chuckled when a bawd was carted

   1708, Matthew Prior, Paulo Purganti and His Wife

plural carts

1. informalbroadcastingA tape cartridge used for pre-recorded material such as jingles and advertisements.
2. informalcomputingA cartridge for a computer or video game system.

   My Final Fantasy cart on the NES is still alive and kicking.

3. informalslangA cartridge containing cannabis oil or another drug for use in vape pens; a detachable clearomizer, usually threaded and prefilled.

   Whoah! Where did you get a DMT cart?

   2 more examples

   Elysse got sober before entering college but soon found that seemingly everyone on her dorm floor habitually used weed. ¶ "Not only carts," she said, referring to the cannabis cartridges used in vape pens, "but bongs, pipes, bowls — absolutely everything."

   2022 June 23, Christina Caron, quoting Elysse, “Teens Are Getting Sick From Products With High THC Levels”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Dec 2023

   Vapes are a relatively new innovation, and at this point, the process of feeding cannabis oil to a heat source creates a few challenges for devices like disposable carts to overcome.

   2023 March 17, Danielle Guercio, “How to Unclog a Vape Pen”, in Lifehacker, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2023

1. abbreviationacronymAcronym of Championship Auto Racing Teams, a defunct sanctioning body for open-wheel racing in motorsports in the United States of America. (Compare USAC, FIA.)

plural CARTs

1. abbreviationacronymmachine learningcomputerAcronym of classification and regression tree.

plural Carts

1. countableuncountableA surname.
2. countableuncountableA short river, the River Cart in Renfrewshire council area, Scotland, formed from its tributaries Black Cart Water and White Cart Water.