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Meanings of Dodgem in English

Catalan
autos de xoc

A small electric car designed to bump into other similar cars, often displayed at a funfair.

autos de xoc
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Examples for "dodgem car"
Examples for "dodgem car"
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Alan winked back, and they wandered on, past rifle-ranges, hooplas and dodgem cars.
Eight Days of Luke
2
Now I know where fairground dodgem cars were invented.
The Guardian
3
The dodgem cars came first, smashing through the reinforced sides of their stand and heading straight for us at impossible speed.
The unnatural inquirer
4
The subsequent films may, at least, explain why the current picture begins with a sequence depicting mentally challenged adults driving dodgem cars.
The Irish Times
5
The rest of the dodgem cars were already upon us, so Suzie and I threw ourselves in opposite directions, out of their way.
The unnatural inquirer
1
It was about as complicated to make move as a bumper car.
Turn coat
2
Few strikers use their body so well, a bumper car relishing the bumps.
The Guardian
3
Check out these two pictures from the bumper car ride at the fair.
Wired
4
But a summer retreat in Dingle or Donegal summoned up visions of bumper -to- bumper car journeys.
The Irish Times
5
Geneva Motor Show Caption Contest is... Man, I always get the bumper car that won't move.
Wired
Usage of Dodgem in English
1
On their left was the Demon Dodgem Cars building, now boarded and shuttered.
The talisman
2
I had an 18-month break from writing it while I was producing Dodgem Logic.
The Guardian
3
Why is Dodgem Logic on hold?
The Guardian
4
AM: In the second issue of Dodgem Logic (the Northampton-based magazine Moore was publishing), we had a wonderful photo feature upon some burlesque ladies.
The Guardian
5
Alan winked back, and they wandered on, past rifle-ranges, hooplas and dodgem cars.
Eight Days of Luke
6
It's a hugely ambitious piece of dance theatre set on a dodgem track.
The Irish Times
7
Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Grim Reaper rides the dodgems at Dismaland.
The Guardian
8
The end result was a muscular game of human dodgems.
The Guardian
9
Dodgem Logic volume 2, with a bit of luck, should be appearing early next year.
The Guardian
10
Now I know where fairground dodgem cars were invented.
The Guardian
11
He has set the Garda on more collision courses than the dodgems in a funfair.
The Irish Times
12
Failing that, some of us can submit to the deadly dodgems we call car driving.
The Irish Times
13
You can have a ride on the dodgems.
Eight Days of Luke
14
Lady Ermine might well have been a dodgem fiend.)
The Guardian
15
To those who have never karted, as a motorsport it may rate only slightly higher than the dodgems.
The Irish Times
16
White helmet bowed, bodies bouncing off him like dodgems, Tipp forwards scudding in all directions like a pickpocket gang.
The Irish Times
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