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

So who better to turn to than these experts themselves to get a sense of which pieces will dominate shopping carts this fall? —Talia Abbas, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2024

In this case, the two people wearing masks were carrying ammunition and pushing shopping carts full of costumes stolen from a nearby holiday store, police said in a social media post. —Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2024

The black metal contraptions are custom-made for the store and include low white shelves for shoes, like rolling fashion shopping carts. —Christina Binkley, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2024

Cops found a body in a shopping cart in the Bronx nearly 10 miles south of Yonkers in August 2023. —Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1934, in the meaning defined at sense 1