Meaning of Trolley | Babel Free

Definitions

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. A streetcar or light train.
   US
3. A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system.
   US, colloquial
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. A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley.
   Australia, British, Ireland, New-Zealand
7. Clipping of flatbed trolley.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
8. A hand truck.
   British
9. A soapbox car.
   British
10. A gurney, a stretcher with wheeled legs.
    British
11. A handcar.
    Philippines

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Examples

“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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