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cartop

cartop verb: to attach (a boat) to the roof of an automobile for transportation.

Verb

cartop (third-person singular simple present cartops, present participle cartopping, simple past and past participle cartopped)

  1. (transitive) To attach (a boat) to the roof of an automobile for transportation.

Forms of cartop

third-person singular presentcartops
present participlecartopping
past participlecartopped
pastcartopped

Origin of cartop

From car + top.

Words formed from cartop

Questions about cartop

What does cartop mean?
Cartop means to attach (a boat) to the roof of an automobile for transportation.
What part of speech is cartop?
Cartop is a verb.
What is the past tense of cartop?
The past tense of cartop is cartopped.

Words near cartop in the dictionary

  1. cartoonizes
  2. cartoonizing
  3. cartoonlike
  4. cartoons
  5. cartoony
  6. cartop
  7. cartophile
  8. cartophiles
  9. cartophilia
  10. cartophilic
  11. cartophilist

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