Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. car boot sale
WordNet
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.