Meaning of billy cart | Babel Free

Definitions

A rudimentary child's cart; a soapbox car.

Australia, UK

Examples

“1954 December, Rotary Reporter: Brief Items on Club Activities around the World, The Rotarian, page 38, Whether you call them billy carts or soap-box racers, they're one and the same: homemade, four-wheeled, motorless racers that depend on a downhill course for their speed. […] In Coffs Harbour, Australia, for example, the Rotary Club recently held its third annual Billy Cart Derby for cars in two divisions: homemade racers and special championship cars.”

“It was in the billy cart, I suppose, that I had my first-ever races.”

“A few wheels and a crate to make a billy cart would probably be acceptable, or the odd old alarm clock, but nothing more.”

“The kids wanted a hole put in a piece of piping to make an axle for a billy-cart, but we had no drill, so Mac stood the steel pipe up against a gum tree, up with the rifle and shot a hole clean through it. The kids were delighted - they put a bolt through and screwed the nut in place and they had a billy-cart.”

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