"Toonerville Trolley" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "From the 1908–1955 cartoon featuring a trolley.",
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      "form": "Toonerville Trolleys",
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        "plural"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
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        {
          "ref": "1945, J. H. Hodgson, The Heavens Above and the Earth Beneath: A History of the Dominion Observatories, Geological Survey of Canada, page 66:",
          "text": "Such a car was the feature of a comic strip of those days, \"The Toonerville Trolley that Meets All the Trains\", and the Farm cars were affectionately known as \"The Toonerville Trolley\".",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Charity Adams Earley, One Woman's Army: A Black Officer Remembers the WAC, Texas A&M University Press, page 118:",
          "text": "[T]he two modes of transportation available were taxicab and the “Toonerville Trolley.” ... The name “Toonerville Trolley” was taken from a popular cartoon of the time because we thought the rock and roll of the streetcar and the uphill and downhill route seemed to be lifted from the cartoon.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Dale E. Shaffer, Salem, OH: A Quaker City History, Arcadia Publishing, page 93:",
          "text": "The trolley on that route was referred to as “Old Dolly” and the “Toonerville Trolley” (from the comic strip)",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, “Vermont: Toonerville Trail”, in Rail-Trails: New England, Wilderness Press, page 205:",
          "text": "The trolley, affectionately nicknamed the “Toonerville Trolley” after a popular cartoon strip that ran until 1947.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, John H. Davis, What Do White Americans Want to Know about Black Americans But Are Afraid to Ask, Xlibris, page 86:",
          "text": "During the period, the area became known as the Toonerville after a local factory. The Pacific electric red car tracks ran through the area, and the local trolley became known as the Toonerville trolley.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Thomas L. Hamm, Jr., A Lifetime Spent Doing What I Loved to Do!: An Autobiography, iUniverse, page 15:",
          "text": "To travel that mile there was an honest-to-god Toonerville Trolley. A Toonerville Trolley was a very small, one railroad car, featured in a comic strip popular at the time, with one cartoon-type fellow who did all the driving; ...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Dorothy Grider, “Just Like Paradise”, in Geri Delevich, Marilyn Cichowski, editors, Embraceable You: We're All Part of the Story - New Hope, Pennsylvania, iUniverse, page ??:",
          "text": "I always loved the first leg of that trip that began with a walk over the bridge that led to Lambertville Station and then a hop on board the little one-coach train called the Toonerville Trolley.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An old-fashioned single-car trolley."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) An old-fashioned single-car trolley."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1969 October 10, American Flyers Airline, advertisement, Life, volume 67, number 175, page 124:",
          "text": "Our airline must be something out of the Toonerville Trolley.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, Stephen King, Pet Sematary, Doubleday:",
          "text": "At that point Louis had gone into the dispensary and taken a Tuinal—what his first med school roommate had called Tooners. “Hop up on the Toonerville Trolley, Louis,” he'd say, “and I'll put on some Credence.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A noticeably inexpensive trip."
      ],
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  "wikipedia": [
    "Toonerville Folks"
  ],
  "word": "Toonerville Trolley"
}

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  "etymology_text": "From the 1908–1955 cartoon featuring a trolley.",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
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    {
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        "English informal terms",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1945, J. H. Hodgson, The Heavens Above and the Earth Beneath: A History of the Dominion Observatories, Geological Survey of Canada, page 66:",
          "text": "Such a car was the feature of a comic strip of those days, \"The Toonerville Trolley that Meets All the Trains\", and the Farm cars were affectionately known as \"The Toonerville Trolley\".",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Charity Adams Earley, One Woman's Army: A Black Officer Remembers the WAC, Texas A&M University Press, page 118:",
          "text": "[T]he two modes of transportation available were taxicab and the “Toonerville Trolley.” ... The name “Toonerville Trolley” was taken from a popular cartoon of the time because we thought the rock and roll of the streetcar and the uphill and downhill route seemed to be lifted from the cartoon.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Dale E. Shaffer, Salem, OH: A Quaker City History, Arcadia Publishing, page 93:",
          "text": "The trolley on that route was referred to as “Old Dolly” and the “Toonerville Trolley” (from the comic strip)",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, “Vermont: Toonerville Trail”, in Rail-Trails: New England, Wilderness Press, page 205:",
          "text": "The trolley, affectionately nicknamed the “Toonerville Trolley” after a popular cartoon strip that ran until 1947.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, John H. Davis, What Do White Americans Want to Know about Black Americans But Are Afraid to Ask, Xlibris, page 86:",
          "text": "During the period, the area became known as the Toonerville after a local factory. The Pacific electric red car tracks ran through the area, and the local trolley became known as the Toonerville trolley.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Thomas L. Hamm, Jr., A Lifetime Spent Doing What I Loved to Do!: An Autobiography, iUniverse, page 15:",
          "text": "To travel that mile there was an honest-to-god Toonerville Trolley. A Toonerville Trolley was a very small, one railroad car, featured in a comic strip popular at the time, with one cartoon-type fellow who did all the driving; ...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Dorothy Grider, “Just Like Paradise”, in Geri Delevich, Marilyn Cichowski, editors, Embraceable You: We're All Part of the Story - New Hope, Pennsylvania, iUniverse, page ??:",
          "text": "I always loved the first leg of that trip that began with a walk over the bridge that led to Lambertville Station and then a hop on board the little one-coach train called the Toonerville Trolley.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An old-fashioned single-car trolley."
      ],
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        "(informal) An old-fashioned single-car trolley."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1969 October 10, American Flyers Airline, advertisement, Life, volume 67, number 175, page 124:",
          "text": "Our airline must be something out of the Toonerville Trolley.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, Stephen King, Pet Sematary, Doubleday:",
          "text": "At that point Louis had gone into the dispensary and taken a Tuinal—what his first med school roommate had called Tooners. “Hop up on the Toonerville Trolley, Louis,” he'd say, “and I'll put on some Credence.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A noticeably inexpensive trip."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Toonerville Folks"
  ],
  "word": "Toonerville Trolley"
}