trolley

Meanings

Plural: trolleys, trollies

Noun

• a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity
• A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus.
• A streetcar or light train.
• A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar 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.
• A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley.
• Clipping of flatbed trolley.
• A hand truck.
• A soapbox car.
• A gurney, a stretcher with wheeled legs.
• A handcar.

Verb

• To bring to by trolley.
• To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another.
• To travel by trolley (streetcar, trolleybus or light train).

Synonyms

crane trolley, streetcar, tram, tramcar, traveling trolley, trolley car