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单词 go-kart
释义

go-kartn.

Brit. /ˈɡəʊkɑːt/, U.S. /ˈɡoʊˌkɑrt/
Forms: 1900s– go-cart, 1900s– go-kart.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item.
Etymology: Alteration of go-cart n. and adj. (compare sense 4b at that entry). Compare kart n.Used as a brand name (1958–62) by the Go Kart Manufacturing Company, Inc., of Azusa, California.
A small racing car with a lightweight or skeleton body and powered by a two-cycle engine, typically used for recreation. Cf. kart n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > go-kart
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1957 Rod & Custom Nov. 6 Go Kart—remember that name... If you like cars of all types..then you'll fall in love with a Go Kart.
1957 Rod & Custom Nov. 30 Though over 30 Go Karts have at this writing been completed..actual racing has not yet been tried.
1958 Mansfield (Ohio) News-Jrnl. 5 Oct. 25 (advt.) The ‘go carts’ are here and I've got 'em.
1960 Sunday Express 11 Sept. 5/3 The Go-karts, which were bought for Prince Charles and Princess Anne..are capable of about 15 miles an hour.
1971 Flying Apr. 47/2 Tallman has a wooden leg, but he got it in a freak accident on a go-kart.
1989 New Yorker 18 Sept. 120/3 Afterward Zeb rode go-carts and spent twenty dollars in a video-game arcade.
2007 L. Brown Miracle of Catfish ix. 26 Jimmy's daddy had to get off the go-kart to push it out of the ditch.

Compounds

General attributive.
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1959 Washington Post 22 Apr. b4/2 Three Washington businessmen received permission..yesterday to open a ‘go cart’ racing track near Bowie, Md.
1959 Times 17 Sept. 5/7 The R.A.C. are prepared in principle to accept the control in Britain of go-kart racing—the new miniature car racing popular in the United States.
1959 Daily Tel. 26 Oct. 15/4 (caption) Drivers negotiating straw-bale obstacles while competing..yesterday in a Go-Kart meeting, the first in England.
1992 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 5 Apr. 64 An adventure playground where children can have hours of fun on the go-kart circuit, trampolines, water-slide and assault course.
2009 C. Leachman & G. Englund Cloris 249 Bryan was mad about go-karts, so George found a major go-kart track outside Rome.

Derivatives

ˈgo-karting n.
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1958 Pop. Mech. Sept. 71 (advt.) All the family will be able to enjoy the thrilling new sport of go karting.
1989 Economist 9 Dec. 32 (advt.) Driving the Z1 with the doors lowered is an experience few will have enjoyed since their go-karting days.
2004 M. Weed & C. Bull Sports Tourism iv. 71 They looked at the brochures and were excited about the swimming pool and the go-karting.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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