trolley

• trolly

Early 19th century: of dialect origin, perhaps from troll.

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• Rhymes: -ɒli

trolley (plural trollies or trolleys)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) A cart or shopping cart.
2. (Britain) A hand truck.
3. (Britain) A soapbox car.
4. (Britain) A gurney.
5. A single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line usually for a tram or streetcar. Usually called a trolley pole.
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.

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.

Borrowed from English trolley.

• IPA^(key): /tʁɔ.lɛ/

trolley m (plural trolleys)

1. trolley
2. trolleybus

trolley m (plural trolleys or trolley)

1. (anglicism) Alternative spelling of trole