🌍 American vs British · vocabulary

shopping cart vs trolley

The wheeled metal basket used to carry goods around a supermarket.

American
shopping cart

“He pushed the shopping cart down the cereal aisle.”

British
trolley

“He pushed the trolley down the cereal aisle.”

Good to know

"Shopping cart" is American; Britons say "trolley." In the US "cart" also covers an online shopping basket, whereas British sites usually call that a "basket" or "bag."

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