• Trolley

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -É’li

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    Origin

    Full definition of trolley

    Noun

    trolley

    (plural trollies or trolleys)
    1. (New Zealand, British) A cart or shopping cart.
    2. (British) A hand truck.
    3. (British) A soapbox car.
    4. (British) A gurney.
    5. A single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electical line usually for a streetcar.
    6. (US) A streetcar or a system of streetcars.
    7. (US, colloquial) A light rail system or a train on such a system.
    8. A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
    9. A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.

    Verb

    1. To bring to by trolley.
    2. To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another.
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