billy cart

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A rudimentary child's cart; a soapbox car. Australia,UK
    — 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.

词形变化

billy carts plural billy-cart alternative

词源

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