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apple cart

apple cart noun: barrow with apples.

Noun

apple cart (plural apple carts)

  1. Barrow with apples.
    • In addition to the special menu, the restaurant also organised a schools' morning that involved children from one school pushing a laden apple cart from Freshers greengrocers, who provided a lot of the fruit, over Richmond Bridge to the restaurant.2000, The Common Ground Book of Orchards: Conservation, Culture and Community, →ISBN
    • People flocked to my squeaky red wagon apple cart.2013, Allan Woodrow, The Pet War, →ISBN
  2. Planned situation.
    • upset the apple cart
    • What makes this particular period so revolutionary is that people are now doing rather than simply watching all of this. They are taking hold of the apple cart and shaking the hell out of it.2015, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential, →ISBN

Forms of apple cart

pluralapple carts

Questions about apple cart

What does apple cart mean?
Apple cart means barrow with apples.
What part of speech is apple cart?
Apple cart is a noun.
What is the plural of apple cart?
The plural of apple cart is apple carts.

Words near apple cart in the dictionary

  1. apple bush
  2. apple butter
  3. apple butters
  4. apple cake
  5. apple cakes
  6. apple cart
  7. apple carts
  8. apple cheese
  9. apple cider
  10. apple cider vinegar
  11. apple cider vinegars

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