stroller
[stroh-ler]
- 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.
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Origin of stroller
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Contemporary Examples
I parked the stroller at the base of the metal slide and wrestled Julia in her bulky snowsuit out of the belted contraption.
I put her back into the stroller and trudged uphill back to the apartment, stunned.
She learned that somebody had fired at a man pushing a stroller and ended up killing a 1-year-old boy.
A 15-year-old Bronx girl was wounded while pushing a baby in a stroller to safety.
Then, West says, the boys walked over to the stroller—and shot her baby.
Historical Examples
The stroller tried a simple ruse, and nigh lost his feet in doing it.
Robin HoodPaul Creswick
Before them fled the stroller and his three sons, capless and terrified.
Robin HoodPaul Creswick
"A sign that we will be proper friends," replied the stroller.
Robin HoodPaul Creswick
That's why he moved—he moved in that trailer, in that stroller.
Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15)The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
The carriages grow fewer, the shadowy figures hurry by and touch the stroller lightly.
The ImmortalAlphonse Daudet
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Word Origin and History for stroller
n.
"child's push-chair," 1920, agent noun from stroll (v.).
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