Carnet vs Carn - What's the difference?
carnet | carn |
(legal) A customs document that allows the temporary duty-free importation of a particular article
* {{quote-book, 2003, Jim Hudgens et al., The Rough Guide to West Africa
, passage=If you plan to sell your car, of course, a carnet is the last thing you need: if the vehicle isn't correctly stamped in and out of each country you'll lose your deposit.}}
A collection of travel tickets in the form of a booklet that is sold at a discount
* If you think you're going to use more than ten single trip tickets within Zone 1 in a twelve month period, you can buy a carnet of ten tickets for £17 - your cost per journey reduces from £2 down to £1.70.
(Australia, informal) Come on.
(Australia, informal) An exclamation of support or approval, usually for a sporting (especially football) team.
* 1956' September 10, "'''Carn the Magpies!", ''
* 2001 March 26, "Rabbitohs win hearts and minds of the disaffected",
* 2004 February 12, "Keeping sport local on our ABC",
* 2011' October 11, "'''Carn the Four'n Twenty, says Preston", ''
As a noun carnet
is a customs document that allows the temporary duty-free importation of a particular article.As an interjection carn is
come on.carnet
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(en interjection)The Argus
The Sydney Morning Herald
- Cries of "Carn the Bunnies" rang out, and the talk was of past glories, present disappointments and future hopes.
The Age
- Surely there is someone in ABC Television management who has read Bruce Dawe's evocative poem Life Cycle: "When children are born in Victoria/they are wrapped in the club-colours, laid in beribboned cots/having already begun a lifetime's barracking/Carn', they cry, ' carn … feebly at first."
Herald Sun