shopping cart

noun

1

: a metal or plastic cart with four small wheels that is used for holding merchandise when shopping (as at a supermarket or department store)

… about the only amenities besides the jumbo-sized shopping carts are a few flatbed dollies to allow shoppers to get large appliances like refrigerators and washing machines to the cash register and then out to the parking lot.

—Jean Crichton

2

: a temporary record of items selected for eventual purchase from an online vendor's website

To set up shop on the Internet, you need a commerce-enabled Web site, which includes the electronic shopping cart; a connection to the credit card network; and finally, a merchant account …

—Tom Negrino

Delivery charges are the No. 1 reason shoppers abandon a virtual shopping cart, according to Jupiter Media Metrix. Every Internet shopper has a shipping-charge horror story.

—Ellen Neuborn

Examples of shopping cart in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The days of loading up your shopping cart and checking out by yourself at Target are coming to a close. —Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 18 Mar. 2024

Police believe Robinson transported the victims' bodies in a shopping cart before dumping their remains in vacant lots. —Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024

Inside, the stores will have new paint, new signs and more shopping carts, as well as a new checkout design at the front of the stores. —USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024

One thing’s for sure: the women’s driving loafer is about to take our shopping carts (and hopefully yours, too) by serious storm! —Laura Jackson, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2024

That same year, Britt also pleaded guilty to DUI and drug charges after driving his vehicle into a shopping cart in a sporting goods store's parking lot. —Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2024

Then, the season crashed like a shopping cart dropped from 1,000 feet. —Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2024

Standing behind the table was one Girl Scout and an adult, and next to them was a shopping cart with boxes of cookies. —Greg Wehner, Fox News, 20 Feb. 2024

Someone stole a purse containing $475 and three pairs of glasses from a shopping cart that was in the parking lot. —Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1934, in the meaning defined at sense 1