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Dodgem definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a small low-powered electrically powered vehicle driven on a special platform where there are many others to be dodged [syn: bumper car, Dodgem]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1945 chiefly British bumper car — called also dodgem car

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. each of a number of small electrically-driven cars in an enclosure at a funfair, driven round and bumped into each other. Etymology: DODGE + 'EM

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(dodgems) A dodgem or dodgem car is a small electric car with a wide rubber strip all round. People drive dodgems around a special area at an amusement park and sometimes crash into each other for fun. (TRADEMARK) (mainly BRIT; in AM, use bumper car) N-COUNT: usu pl