billy cart

短语

发音

AU

词形变化

billy carts 复数 billy carts

别名

billycart billy-cart

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A rudimentary child's cart; a soapbox car.

    澳大利亚 英国

    1954 December, Rotary Reporter: Brief Items on Club Activities around the World, The Rotarian, page 38, Whether you call them billy carts or soap-box racers, they're one and the same: homemade, four-wheeled, motorless racers that depend on a downhill course for their speed. […] In Coffs Harbour, Australia, for example, the Rotary Club recently held its third annual Billy Cart Derby for cars in two divisions: homemade racers and special championship cars.

词源

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

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