trolley

English

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒli

Noun

trolley (plural trollies or trolleys)

1. (New Zealand, UK) A cart or shopping cart.
2. (UK) A hand truck.
3. (UK) A soapbox car.
4. (UK) 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.

Derived terms

• trolleybus

Translations

cart or shopping cart

Czech: vozík (cs) m. Finnish: ostoskärry Hungarian: bevásárlókocsi (hu)

Italian: carrello (it) m. Macedonian: количка (mk) (kólička) f. Swedish: vagn (sv) c., kärra (sv) c., (shopping cart) kundvagn (sv) c.

hand truck

Czech: rudl (cs) m.

Swedish: säckkärra (sv) c.

soapbox car

Swedish: lådbil (sv) c.

gurney

Czech: vozík (cs) m.

Finnish: paarit (fi) pl.

device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electical line

Czech: trolej (cs) f.

streetcar

Czech: tramvaj (cs) f. Finnish: raitiovaunu (fi)

Swedish: spårvagn (sv) c.

light rail system

Spanish: trolebus (es)

abundance of trolls

Verb

trolley (third-person singular simple present trolleys, present participle trolleying, simple past and past participle trolleyed or trollied)

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