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trolley
[ trol-ee ]
noun
- a pulley or truck traveling on an overhead track and serving to support and move a suspended object.
- a grooved metallic wheel or pulley carried on the end of a pole trolley pole by an electric car or locomotive, and held in contact with an overhead conductor, usually a suspended wire trolley wire, from which it collects the current for the propulsion of the car or locomotive.
- any of various devices for collecting current for such a purpose, as a pantograph, or a bowlike structure bow trolley sliding along an overhead wire, or a device underground trolley for taking current from the underground wire or conductor used by some electric railways.
- a small truck or car operated on a track, as in a mine or factory.
- a serving cart, as one used to serve desserts.
- Chiefly British. any of various low carts or vehicles, as a railway handcar or costermonger's cart.
verb (used with or without object)
- to convey or go by trolley.
trolley
/ ˈtrɒlɪ /
noun
- a small table on casters used for conveying food, drink, etc
- a wheeled cart or stand pushed by hand and used for moving heavy items, such as shopping in a supermarket or luggage at a railway station
- (in a hospital) a bed mounted on casters and used for moving patients who are unconscious, immobilized, etc
- See trolleybusSee trolleybus
- See trolley carSee trolley car
- a device that collects the current from an overhead wire ( trolley wire ), third rail, etc, to drive the motor of an electric vehicle
- a pulley or truck that travels along an overhead wire in order to support a suspended load
- a low truck running on rails, used in factories, mines, etc, and on railways
- a truck, cage, or basket suspended from an overhead track or cable for carrying loads in a mine, quarry, etc
- off one's trolley slang.off one's trolley
- mentally confused or disorganized
- insane
verb
- tr to transport (a person or object) on a trolley
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Origin of trolley1
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Idioms and Phrases
- off one's trolley, Slang.
- in a confused mental state.
- insane:
He's been off his trolley for years, but his family refuses to have him committed.
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Example Sentences
Mubarak was present, wheeled in on a hospital trolley and wearing his trademark sunglasses.
There, Orange Scott ran the interurban, a turn-of-the-century electric trolley line that connected the boomtown with its exurbs.
Four men in army uniform are seen loading massive safes onto a trolley.
A male suicide bomber was also believed to have detonated the Monday blast, which decimated the back half of a trolley bus.
Nico steered a luggage trolley piled high with Pippa's bags through the arrivals hall.
The great Dam at Assouan was just completed and we traversed its entire length on a trolley propelled by natives.
Presently the thought of the cool trolley-run to the Lake grew irresistible, and they struggled out of the theatre.
The trolley is an articulated frame 77 ft. long in five sections coupled together with pins.
I thought how at college I used to hear from my chamber the screech of trolley cars rounding a curve and biting my nerves.
To reach it from the outer sections of the district, the tracks used by nine lines of trolley cars must be crossed.
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