carful

noun

car·ful ˈkär-ˌfu̇l

: as much or as many as a car will hold

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There's also the time he got lost in a favela in Brazil with a carful of German fans. — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026 At one point during our interview, a carful of boys drives by, honking and waving. — Ashley Stimpson, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2022 The camera feed is useful not only when a carful of rear-seat passengers or bulky cargo obstructs the view but even at other times, owing to the forest of thick pillars. — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 9 Dec. 2022 The land crossings to Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Georgia and Finland swelled with carfuls of men. — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024 When a carful of young people pulled up, eying a tobacco shop on the ground floor, a thin, bearded man in reading glasses and a colorful button-down shirt told them that there was nothing to steal. — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020 One German Turkish university student was unloading a carful of phone-charging banks. — Erika Solomon, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Feb. 2023 Later, Matar’s brother, Ziad, narrowly escaped a carful of would-be kidnappers who chased him all the way to his boarding school in a Swiss mountain village. — Robert F. Worth, Foreign Affairs, 11 Apr. 2017 In Oman vague guidelines meant for historical artifacts snared Farmer and Ward, who were arrested there with a carful of meteorites in 2011 and sentenced, after a brief trial, to 6 months in prison. — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 13 Aug. 2020

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1832, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of carful was in 1832

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