• (RP) IPA: /kɑːt/
• (America) enPR: kärt, IPA: /kɑɹt/

From Middle English cart, kart, from Old Norse kartr, akin to Old English cræt, from Proto-Germanic *krattaz, *krattijô, *kradō, from Proto-Indo-European *gret-, from *ger-.

Cognate with Western Frisian kret, Dutch krat, kret, German Krätze. Wider cognates include Sanskrit ग्रन्थ.

cart (plural carts)

1. A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.

   The grocer delivered his goods by cart.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC ↗:

     We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.

2. A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.
3. (Internet) A shopping cart.

• French: chariot, charrette
• German: Wagen, Karren
• Italian: carretto, carrello, carro
• Portuguese: carroça, carreta
• Russian: теле́га
• Spanish: carro, carreta

• German: Kart
• Portuguese: kart

cart (carts, present participle carting; simple past and past participle carted)

1. (transitive) To carry or convey in a cart.
2. (transitive, informal) To carry goods.

   I've been carting these things around all day.

3. (transitive) To remove, especially involuntarily or for disposal.
   • 2001, Donald Spoto, chapter 2, in Marilyn Monroe: The Biography, page 18 ↗:

     On August 4, 1927, Della was carted away to the Norwalk State Hospital, suffering from acute myocarditis

4. (transitive, obsolete) To expose in a cart by way of punishment.

• German: befördern, karren

cart (plural carts)

1. (radio, informal) A tape cartridge used for pre-recorded material such as jingles and advertisements.
2. (computing, video games, informal) A cartridge for a computer or video game system.

   My Final Fantasy cart on the NES is still alive and kicking.

3. (slang) A cartridge containing cannabis oil used in vape pens.
   • 2022 June 23, Christina Caron, quoting Elysse, “Teens Are Getting Sick From Products With High THC Levels”, in The New York Times‎^{[https://web.archive.org/web/20231219212415/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/well/mind/teens-thc-cannabis.html]}, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN ↗, →OCLC ↗, archived from the original ↗ on 2023-12-19:

     Elysse got sober before entering college but soon found that seemingly everyone on her dorm floor habitually used weed. ¶ "Not only carts," she said, referring to the cannabis cartridges used in vape pens, "but bongs, pipes, bowls — absolutely everything."

1. Acronym of Championship Auto Racing Teams, a defunct sanctioning body for open-wheel racing in motorsports in the United States of America. (Compare USAC, FIA.)

cart (plural carts)

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1. Surname.