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cartwheels

cartwheels is the plural of cartwheel.

cartwheels is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cartwheel.

Meaning of cartwheel

Noun

cartwheel (plural cartwheels)

  1. The wheel of a cart.
    • Near-synonyms: wagon wheel, artillery wheel
  2. A gymnastic maneuver whereby the gymnast rotates to one side or the other while keeping arms and legs outstretched, spinning for one or more revolutions.
  3. (UK, historical, obsolete, slang) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
    • Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words
  4. (US, historical, obsolete, slang) A silver dollar of the larger size produced before 1979.

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Phrases with cartwheels

Questions about cartwheels

What is cartwheels the plural of?
Cartwheels is the plural of cartwheel.

Words near cartwheels in the dictionary

  1. cartwheel hats
  2. cartwheeled
  3. cartwheeler
  4. cartwheelers
  5. cartwheeling
  6. cartwheels
  7. cartwhip
  8. cartwhipped
  9. cartwhipping
  10. cartwhippings
  11. cartwhips

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