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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pushcart
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ None the less, our hero prevails and the villainous stepfather ends up as pommes frites on an Amsterdam pushcart.
▪ The typical retail pushcart is set up in the open areas of a shopping mall or strip mall.
▪ They settled in Seattle, where they got jobs selling chili out of pushcarts.
Wiktionary
pushcart

n. A small cart, normally with two or four wheels, that can be pushed by hand

WordNet
pushcart

n. 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" [syn: handcart, cart, go-cart]

Wikipedia
Pushcart

Pushcart may refer to:

  • Pushcart Press
  • Pushcart Prize
  • The Pushcart War, a 1964 children's book by Jean Merrill
  • a synonym for baggage cart
  • a synonym for food cart

Usage examples of "pushcart".

He rounded up a separate team to interview each of the half dozen pushcart vendors here, some selling coffee and doughnuts at the moment, others setting up for lunches of hot dogs, pretzels, gyros and falafel pita-bread sandwiches.

They seemed to have no homelife of any sort, but just scurried around with their pushcarts, bringing in rubbish.

His idea was to have little pushcarts full of books drawn about the streets.

The lamps they kindled shone blurrily through the mist, lighting the shopfronts and street stalls and pushcarts of knife grinders, pasta makers, coral carvers, cheesemongers, mallow gatherers, birdseed sellers, porcelain menders, all still crying their wares and services to the passersby hurrying home for the night.

The men with the pushcarts were all young and vigorous, like her dacoits, and also like her dacoits, they were not native English.

Adroit as a footballer dodging through defensemen toward the goal, Anielewicz steered his bicycle past pushcarts, rickshaws, hordes of other bicycles, and swarms of men and women afoot.

There's nothing but housewives haggling at pushcarts, drooling brats who write dirty words on the sidewalks, and drunken debutantes.

He spoke the English we know, the English of the banana pushcarts and the pizzerias, of the spaghetti joints and grind organs.

He had resumed his seat on the stool behind the pushcart watermelon stand, and was watching a customer sink his grinning teeth into a quarter of bright red, black-seeded, ice-cold watermelon, when the starker walked rapidly from Seventh Avenue and reentered the hotel.