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handcars

handcars is the plural of handcar.

Meaning of handcar

Noun

handcar (plural handcars)

  1. A light railroad car propelled by a hand-operated pumping mechanism
    • Yours goes up and mine goes down / and then we do it the other way around. / Don't you give me that sigh, cause if we can't see eye-to-eye / then our missions will be always filled with strife, / cause a handcar is a metaphor for life.2013 March 1, “Sidetracked”, in Phineas and Ferb, season 4, episode 5, spoken by Agent Lyla (Samantha Bee)

Questions about handcars

What is handcars the plural of?
Handcars is the plural of handcar.

Words near handcars in the dictionary

  1. handcare
  2. handcarried
  3. handcarries
  4. handcarry
  5. handcarrying
  6. handcars
  7. handcart
  8. handcarted
  9. handcarting
  10. handcarts
  11. handcarved

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Adapted from Wiktionary: handcars (page history and authors); handcar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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