shopping cart

noun

1. a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.

shopping cart

noun

1. the usual US and Canadian word for shopping basket

Word History and Origins

Origin of shopping cart¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

There was the health benefit: Pushing a shopping cart at the grocery store or walking to and from the office parking lot meant getting in your steps.

From Slate

“Look at these groceries that you get and how much you pay,” she told the BBC, gesturing toward a full shopping cart in a grocery store car park.

From BBC

Gone were the days of ordering items seen on TV; now there was a bottomless shopping cart.

From Slate

I never pushed a shopping cart, never slept in a city park or on a sidewalk or in a tent encampment, never took drugs and never panhandled.

From Los Angeles Times

This time around, visitors to the exhibit hall filled with cannabis educational and farm displays will be able to scan QR codes next to displays of this year’s California State Fair Cannabis Award winners and add the goods to an online shopping cart.

From Los Angeles Times