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trolley

noun

Meaning

  • A cart or shopping cart.

  • A hand truck.

  • A soapbox car.

  • A gurney.

  • A single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line usually for a tram or streetcar. Usually called a trolley pole.

  • A streetcar or a system of streetcars.

  • A light rail system or a train on such a 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.

verb

Meaning

  • To bring to by trolley.

  • To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another.