trolley

English

Alternative forms

• trolly

Etymology

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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.
8. A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
9. A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.

Derived terms

• trolleybus

Translations

cart or shopping cart

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: ترولي (turuli) m

• Central Melanau: troli
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 手推車 (cmn), 手推车 (cmn) (shǒutuīchē), 購物車 (cmn), 购物车 (cmn) (gòuwùchē)

• Czech: vozík (cs) m
• Finnish: ostoskärry (fi)
• French: charriot (fr) m

• German: Karren (de) m, Einkaufswagen (de) m
• Hungarian: bevásárlókocsi (hu)
• Italian: carrello (it) m
• Japanese: トロリー (ja) (tororī)
• Macedonian: количка (mk) (kólička) f
• Malay: troli (ms)
• Polish: wózek (pl) m
• Russian: тележка (ru) (teléžka) 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)

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.