Trolley

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus..

Definitions by Sense

1. A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus.
2. (US) A streetcar or light train.
3. (US, colloquial) A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system.
4. A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
5. A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.
6. (Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland) A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley.
7. Clipping of flatbed trolley.
8. (British) A hand truck.

Example Sentences

Gremlinesque behaviour might not be very obvious to an America, who would accept as perfectly natural the quaintly pixilated sayings and doings that are happening in subways, in trolleys, on buses, in bars at all times of the day and night.

About a shopping trolley, I thought I'd let ye know. Ya'd try to push it straight but it never seems ta go. Ya'd wobble through the car park, hopping off the cars. Anyone would think ya had a few auld jars.

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Word Forms

• trolleys
• trollies
• trolly
• trolleying
• trolleyed
• trollied

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