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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a small low-powered electrically powered vehicle driven on a special platform where there are many others to be dodged.

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  • noun UK A bumper car in an amusement park.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a small low-powered electrically powered vehicle driven on a special platform where there are many others to be dodged

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Examples

  • The risk for the White House is that the crowded agenda becomes a political version of dodgem cars, where a move by one could block the path of another.

    President Obama takes on ambitious December agenda 2009

  • Then there was the river, which I loved straight away, the boat carrying us between the exhibition site on the South Bank, with its Eagle-comic Skylon needle, and Battersea Park with its pleasure grounds and dodgem cars.

    The Festival of Britain, 60 years on 2011

  • You drive the thing like a sodding dodgem car anywa

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 6197 2009

  • But it is fun to drive in a dodgem-like way – it's fast to accelerate and will do 90mph, and coped admirably in a snowfall.

    The Nissan Leaf – a perfect use for that unwanted Christmas jumper 2011

  • "There are more hotels than schools here," I was told last week during a lightning visit to Juba as we bumped along the city's unpaved roads, where 4x4s weave like dodgem cars to avoid pot holes filled with rainwater.

    South Sudan's capital idea | Mark Tran 2011

  • Alice started toward the dodgem cars, skirting the ring-tossing and rifle-shooting games, cutting round the back of the Kamikaze.

    Kiss & Break Up Kate Kingsley 2010

  • Alice started toward the dodgem cars, skirting the ring-tossing and rifle-shooting games, cutting round the back of the Kamikaze.

    Kiss & Break Up Kate Kingsley 2010

  • By now we were playing dodgem cars with our bodies, slipping between the few high-riding elderly SUVs the Gas Wars had left on the road to hide from the suddenly animated horde of screen zombies.

    Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010

  • The band plan to unveil their new name and backdrop, which shows the grim reaper riding a dodgem car, at a London gig this week.

    What's in a name? For Simon Duncan's band, a £200,000 Banksy... 2010

  • She hurriedly veers away from questions she'd rather not answer, as if we're approaching each other in dodgem cars.

    Konnie Huq's growing pains 2010

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