"trolley" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-au-trolley.ogg [Australia] Forms: trolleys [plural], trollies [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒli Etymology: Early 19th century (1823) meaning "cart", of dialectal origin (Suffolk), probably from troll (“to trundle, roll”) + -ey (diminutive ending). Etymology templates: {{af|en|troll|-ey|id2=diminutive|pos2=diminutive ending|t1=to trundle, roll}} troll (“to trundle, roll”) + -ey (diminutive ending) Head templates: {{en-noun|s|trollies}} trolley (plural trolleys or trollies)
  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. Translations (device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line): trolej [feminine] (Czech), tankovirroitin (Finnish), trolley [masculine] (French), perche [feminine] (French)
    Sense id: en-trolley-en-noun-PuhZs7wq Disambiguation of 'device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line': 70 2 2 8 1 3 4 3 4 3 1
  2. (US) A streetcar or light train. Tags: US Synonyms: tram [UK], trolley car
    Sense id: en-trolley-en-noun-en:streetcar Categories (other): American English
  3. (US, colloquial) A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system. Tags: US, colloquial
    Sense id: en-trolley-en-noun-uzeu~937 Categories (other): American English
  4. A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes. Synonyms: crane trolley, traveling trolley Translations (crane trolley): vaunu (Finnish), Krankatze [feminine] (German), Laufkatze [feminine] (German), wózek suwnicowy [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-trolley-en-noun-zhqT9jVX Disambiguation of 'crane trolley': 0 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  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.
    Sense id: en-trolley-en-noun-HsAXfdau
  6. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland) A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley. Tags: Australia, Britain, Ireland, New-Zealand
    Sense id: en-trolley-en-noun-en:shopping_cart Categories (other): Australian English, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English
  7. Clipping of flatbed trolley. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Alternative form of: flatbed trolley
    Sense id: en-trolley-en-noun-otjeVuCo
  8. (Britain) A hand truck. Tags: Britain
    Sense id: en-trolley-en-noun-Q4m9ycQA Categories (other): British English
  9. (Britain) A soapbox car. Tags: Britain
    Sense id: en-trolley-en-noun-K74-DoJg Categories (other): British English
  10. (Britain) A gurney, a stretcher with wheeled legs. Tags: Britain
    Sense id: en-trolley-en-noun-S5S0sUt2 Categories (other): British English
  11. (Philippines) A handcar. Tags: Philippines
    Sense id: en-trolley-en-noun-ZvaVET9r Categories (other): Philippine English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: trolly Hyponyms (streetcar): interurban

Verb

Audio: en-au-trolley.ogg [Australia] Forms: trolleys [present, singular, third-person], trolleying [participle, present], trolleyed [participle, past], trolleyed [past], trollied [participle, past], trollied [past]
Rhymes: -ɒli Etymology: Early 19th century (1823) meaning "cart", of dialectal origin (Suffolk), probably from troll (“to trundle, roll”) + -ey (diminutive ending). Etymology templates: {{af|en|troll|-ey|id2=diminutive|pos2=diminutive ending|t1=to trundle, roll}} troll (“to trundle, roll”) + -ey (diminutive ending) Head templates: {{en-verb|past2=trollied}} trolley (third-person singular simple present trolleys, present participle trolleying, simple past and past participle trolleyed or trollied)
  1. To bring to by trolley.
    Sense id: en-trolley-en-verb-0GFUiSf8
  2. To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another.
    Sense id: en-trolley-en-verb-mV5nZhdV
  3. To travel by trolley (streetcar, trolleybus or light train).
    Sense id: en-trolley-en-verb-aVDZk4Xd
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: trolly

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "word": "trolley jack"
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          "expansion": "→ Catalan: tròlei",
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        "A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus."
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          "ref": "1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 107",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car."
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          "kind": "other",
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          "kind": "other",
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          "ref": "2013-03-15, “The Shopping Trolley” (track 10), in Horsing Around, performed by Richie Kavanagh",
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        "(Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland) A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley."
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          "word": "flatbed trolley"
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        "A hand truck."
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        "(Britain) A hand truck."
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        "A soapbox car."
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        "(Britain) A soapbox car."
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          "kind": "other",
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      ],
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        "(Britain) A gurney, a stretcher with wheeled legs."
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          "name": "Philippine English",
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        "(Philippines) A handcar."
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    {
      "word": "banquet trolley"
    },
    {
      "word": "catering trolley"
    },
    {
      "word": "crash trolley"
    },
    {
      "word": "drinks trolley"
    },
    {
      "word": "hostess trolley"
    },
    {
      "word": "off one's trolley"
    },
    {
      "word": "pump-trolley"
    },
    {
      "word": "pump trolley"
    },
    {
      "word": "shopping trolley"
    },
    {
      "word": "tea trolley"
    },
    {
      "word": "trolley bus"
    },
    {
      "word": "trolleybus"
    },
    {
      "word": "trolley cloth"
    },
    {
      "word": "trolley dash"
    },
    {
      "word": "trolley dolly"
    },
    {
      "word": "trolley jack"
    },
    {
      "word": "trolley lace"
    },
    {
      "word": "trolley park"
    },
    {
      "word": "trolley problem"
    },
    {
      "word": "trolley trasher"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "tròlei",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Catalan: tròlei",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Catalan: tròlei"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "trolley",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ French: trolley",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ French: trolley"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "troleu",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Romanian: troleu",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Romanian: troleu"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "de",
            "2": "Trolley",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ German: Trolley",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ German: Trolley"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cy",
            "2": "troli",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Welsh: troli",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Welsh: troli"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "troll",
        "3": "-ey",
        "id2": "diminutive",
        "pos2": "diminutive ending",
        "t1": "to trundle, roll"
      },
      "expansion": "troll (“to trundle, roll”) + -ey (diminutive ending)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Early 19th century (1823) meaning \"cart\", of dialectal origin (Suffolk), probably from troll (“to trundle, roll”) + -ey (diminutive ending).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "trolleys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trollies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "trollies"
      },
      "expansion": "trolley (plural trolleys or trollies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "sense": "streetcar",
      "word": "interurban"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "trolley pole",
          "trolley pole"
        ],
        [
          "tram",
          "tram"
        ],
        [
          "streetcar",
          "streetcar"
        ],
        [
          "trolleybus",
          "trolleybus"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 107",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A streetcar or light train."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "streetcar",
          "streetcar"
        ],
        [
          "light train",
          "light train"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) A streetcar or light train."
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:streetcar"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "UK"
          ],
          "word": "tram"
        },
        {
          "word": "trolley car"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English colloquialisms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "light rail",
          "light rail"
        ],
        [
          "tramway",
          "tramway"
        ],
        [
          "trolleybus",
          "trolleybus"
        ],
        [
          "streetcar",
          "streetcar"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, colloquial) A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "crane trolley"
        },
        {
          "word": "traveling trolley"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "truck",
          "truck"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "British English",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Irish English",
        "New Zealand English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013-03-15, “The Shopping Trolley” (track 10), in Horsing Around, performed by Richie Kavanagh",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cart",
          "cart"
        ],
        [
          "shopping cart",
          "shopping cart"
        ],
        [
          "shopping trolley",
          "shopping trolley"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland) A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley."
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:shopping cart"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "Britain",
        "Ireland",
        "New-Zealand"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "flatbed trolley"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English clippings"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Clipping of flatbed trolley."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "flatbed trolley",
          "flatbed trolley#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "clipping"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hand truck."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hand truck",
          "hand truck"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Britain) A hand truck."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Britain"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A soapbox car."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "soapbox car",
          "soapbox car"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Britain) A soapbox car."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Britain"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A gurney, a stretcher with wheeled legs."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "gurney",
          "gurney"
        ],
        [
          "stretcher",
          "stretcher"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Britain) A gurney, a stretcher with wheeled legs."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Britain"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Philippine English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A handcar."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "handcar",
          "handcar"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Philippines) A handcar."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Philippines"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒli"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-trolley.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/76/En-au-trolley.ogg/En-au-trolley.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/En-au-trolley.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "trolly"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "trolej"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line",
      "word": "tankovirroitin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "trolley"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "perche"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "crane trolley",
      "word": "vaunu"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "crane trolley",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Krankatze"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "crane trolley",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Laufkatze"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "crane trolley",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "wózek suwnicowy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "trolley"
}

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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "troll",
        "3": "-ey",
        "id2": "diminutive",
        "pos2": "diminutive ending",
        "t1": "to trundle, roll"
      },
      "expansion": "troll (“to trundle, roll”) + -ey (diminutive ending)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Early 19th century (1823) meaning \"cart\", of dialectal origin (Suffolk), probably from troll (“to trundle, roll”) + -ey (diminutive ending).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "trolleys",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trolleying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trolleyed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trolleyed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trollied",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trollied",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "past2": "trollied"
      },
      "expansion": "trolley (third-person singular simple present trolleys, present participle trolleying, simple past and past participle trolleyed or trollied)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To bring to by trolley."
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another."
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To travel by trolley (streetcar, trolleybus or light train)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "streetcar",
          "streetcar"
        ],
        [
          "trolleybus",
          "trolleybus"
        ],
        [
          "light train",
          "light train"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒli"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-trolley.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/76/En-au-trolley.ogg/En-au-trolley.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/En-au-trolley.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "word": "trolly"
    }
  ],
  "word": "trolley"
}

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