billy cart

noun

Etymology

From billy (“male goat”) + cart, referring to the former practice of hitching a cart behind a large goat.

Definitions

  1. A rudimentary child's cart

    A rudimentary child's cart; a soapbox car.

    • It was in the billy cart, I suppose, that I had my first-ever races.
    • A few wheels and a crate to make a billy cart would probably be acceptable, or the odd old alarm clock, but nothing more.

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