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Definition of Applecart

1. Noun. The planning that is disrupted when someone 'upsets the applecart'.

2. Noun. A handcart from which apples and other fruit are sold in the street.

Definition of Applecart

1. Noun. A barrow from which apples and other fruit were formerly sold in the street ¹

2. Noun. A planned situation. (back-form upset the applecart) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Applecart

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Applecart

apple polisher apple rust apple sauce apple seed apple snow apple strudel apple strudels apple tart apple tree apple trees

apple turnover apple turnovers apple wine apple worm apple worms applecart (current term) applecarts applehood applejack applejacks

applejohn applejohns appleless applemint apples apples and oranges apples and pears apples of discord apples of someone's eye

Literary usage of Applecart

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American English by Gilbert Milligan Tucker (1921)
"applecart. To upset one's applecart—to get into trouble. Halliwell says that "down with his applecart" is a provincialism in the north of England, ..."

2. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"... promising applecart by asking with too eager interest, " And did you really know — ? " (a certain reputed witch who was the subject of conversation). ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1909)
"... his applecart," and had much to do with the outbreak of racial feeling between Boers and British that resulted in a terrible war. ..."

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