GO-CART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does go-cart mean? 

• GO-CART (noun)
  The noun GO-CART has 3 senses:

1. an enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk

2. wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels

3. a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around

  Familiarity information: GO-CART used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GO-CART (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

baby-walker; go-cart; walker

Hypernyms ("go-cart" is a kind of...):

frame; framework (a structure supporting or containing something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cart; go-cart; handcart; pushcart

Context example:

their pushcart was piled high with groceries

Hypernyms ("go-cart" is a kind of...):

wheeled vehicle (a vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people)

Meronyms (parts of "go-cart"):

grip; handgrip; handle; hold (the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "go-cart"):

applecart (a handcart from which apples and other fruit are sold in the street)

barrow; garden cart; lawn cart; wheelbarrow (a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels)

hand truck; truck (a handcart that has a frame with two low wheels and a ledge at the bottom and handles at the top; used to move crates or other heavy objects)

laundry cart (handcart for moving a load of laundry)

serving cart (a handcart for serving food)

shopping cart (a handcart that holds groceries or other goods while shopping)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

baby buggy; baby carriage; carriage; go-cart; perambulator; pram; pushchair; pusher; stroller

Hypernyms ("go-cart" is a kind of...):

wheeled vehicle (a vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "go-cart"):

bassinet (a perambulator that resembles a bassinet)

 Context examples 

Dear me! said Mr. Omer, when a man is drawing on to a time of life, where the two ends of life meet; when he finds himself, however hearty he is, being wheeled about for the second time, in a speeches of go-cart; he should be over-rejoiced to do a kindness if he can.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)