trolley

noun

1. 1

   A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus.

2. 2

   A streetcar or light train.

   Gremlinesque behaviour might not be very obvious to an America, who would accept as perfectly natural the quaintly pixilated sayings and doings that are happening in subways, in trolleys, on buses, in bars at all times of the day and night.

3. 3

   A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system.

4. 4

   A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.

5. 5

   A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.

6. 6

   A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley.

   About a shopping trolley, I thought I'd let ye know. Ya'd try to push it straight but it never seems ta go. Ya'd wobble through the car park, hopping off the cars. Anyone would think ya had a few auld jars.

7. 7

   A hand truck.

8. 8

   A soapbox car.

9. 9

   A gurney, a stretcher with wheeled legs.

10. 10

    A handcar.

11. 11

    Variant of flatbed trolleyClipping of flatbed trolley.

verb

1. 1

   To bring to by trolley.

2. 2

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

3. 3

   To travel by trolley (streetcar, trolleybus or light train).

Forms

plural

trolleys, trollies

past tense

trolleyed, trollied

past participle

trolleyed, trollied

present participle

trolleying

third person singular

trolleys