trolley

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity

4. 4
   noun

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

5. 5
   noun

   A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system.

6. 6
   noun

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

7. 7
   noun

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

8. 8
   noun

   Clipping of flatbed trolley.

Etymology

Early 19th century (1823) meaning "cart", of dialectal origin (Suffolk), probably from troll (“to trundle, roll”) + -ey (diminutive ending).