stroller

[ stroh-ler ]

/ ˈstroʊ lər /

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noun

a person who takes a leisurely walk; saunterer.

a wanderer; vagrant.

an itinerant performer.

a four-wheeled, often collapsible, chairlike carriage in which small children are pushed.

RELATED WORDS

buggy, perambulator, pram

Nearby words

Origin of stroller

First recorded in 1600–10; stroll + -er¹

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Examples from the Web for stroller

I parked the stroller at the base of the metal slide and wrestled Julia in her bulky snowsuit out of the belted contraption.
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I put her back into the stroller and trudged uphill back to the apartment, stunned.
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She learned that somebody had fired at a man pushing a stroller and ended up killing a 1-year-old boy.
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A 15-year-old Bronx girl was wounded while pushing a baby in a stroller to safety.
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Then, West says, the boys walked over to the stroller—and shot her baby.
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A stroller he was, of course, but not a minstrel in any other sense than as a keeper of a rhyming diary.
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The stroller felt himself swiftly thrust downward, and as they both fell together it was he who went undermost.
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The carriages grow fewer, the shadowy figures hurry by and touch the stroller lightly.
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In a stroller and as I would walk up to it and try to talk to it, she just acted as if she was scared to death.
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The London theatres reopened under royal patronage, and in the provinces the stroller was abroad.
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British Dictionary definitions for stroller

stroller

/ (ˈstrəʊlə) /

noun

US, Canadian and Australian a usually collapsible chair-shaped carriage in which a small child may be wheeledAlso called (in Britain and certain other countries) buggy 1, pushchair

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Word Origin and History for stroller

stroller

"child's push-chair," 1920, agent noun from stroll (v.).