trolley
IPA: trˈɑɫi
noun
- A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus.
- (US) A streetcar or light train.
- (US, colloquial) A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system.
- A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
- A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland) A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley.
- (Britain) A hand truck.
- (Britain) A soapbox car.
- (Britain) A gurney, a stretcher with wheeled legs.
- (Philippines) A handcar.
verb
- To bring to by trolley.
- To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another.
- To travel by trolley (streetcar, trolleybus or light train).
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Examples of "trolley" in Sentences
- Many rode the trolley to school.
- There is a trolley in background.
- A trolley is mounted on this pole.
- The restaurant used to be a trolley car.
- As in this picture the trolley is in full flight.
- In the 1950's the 661 Trolley Bus replaced the tram.
- The trolley cars are part of the Seashore Trolley Museum.
- The term 'trolley' predates the invention of the trolley pole.
- The terms trolley pole and trolley wheel both derive from the troller.
- The end of the trolley spelled the end of Bonnie Brae and the end of an era.