billy cart
n.— «Billy Carts are awesome—they’re just wooden seats on wheels pretty much…with some form of steering. You’d ride em down ur street (I lived on a very quiet street with a tops hill) and it was awesome fun.» —“Two-Day Holiday Weekend” by James Noble The Musings of Kev July 5, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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