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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
boot sale
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A car boot sale at Boxted Airfield has also been called off.
Wiktionary
boot sale

n. car boot sale

WordNet
boot sale

n. an outdoor sale at which people sell things from the trunk of their car [syn: car boot sale]

Usage examples of "boot sale".

The rusting shelter was fly-posted with car-boot sale announcements.

And while it's reeling from that, we follow up with a whist drive, a car-boot sale, some street theatre, and possibly even some benefit concerts.

The man bent to examine the solidly packed interior and said: ``Gives a new meaning to the words `car boot sale' don't it?

He removed a parking ticket from the windscreen, scrunching it up and dropping it to the tarmac as if it was a flyer for a car-boot sale.

There were spare till rolls and boxes of glasses on a shelf above Bothwell's head, framed cowboy posters stacked against a wall, bric-a-brac and debris like everything had just spilled out of a collision at a car boot sale.

He owned a paperback copy of the book, bought at a car-boot sale on The Meadows for tenpence.

Here am I, a housewife who merely went out this morning to bank the proceeds of the Playgroup Association's Car Boot Sale, on the run with one million in stolen cash and a rather handsome man from the Battery Chickens' Liberation Organization.

Rebus knew what the Weasel was thinking: whoever took the stuff, they'd try flogging it round the pubs or at a car boot sale.