Toonerville trolley

[ too-ner-vil ]

/ ˈtu nərˌvɪl /

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noun

a dilapidated, outmoded trolley line or railway.

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Origin of Toonerville trolley

After the train in the comic strip Toonerville Trolley by U.S. cartoonist Fontaine T. Fox (1884–1964)

Mubarak was present, wheeled in on a hospital trolley and wearing his trademark sunglasses.
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There, Orange Scott ran the interurban, a turn-of-the-century electric trolley line that connected the boomtown with its exurbs.
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Four men in army uniform are seen loading massive safes onto a trolley.
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A male suicide bomber was also believed to have detonated the Monday blast, which decimated the back half of a trolley bus.
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Nico steered a luggage trolley piled high with Pippa's bags through the arrivals hall.
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The great Dam at Assouan was just completed and we traversed its entire length on a trolley propelled by natives.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
Presently the thought of the cool trolley-run to the Lake grew irresistible, and they struggled out of the theatre.
Summer|Edith Wharton
The trolley is an articulated frame 77 ft. long in five sections coupled together with pins.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3|Various
I thought how at college I used to hear from my chamber the screech of trolley cars rounding a curve and biting my nerves.
The Idyl of Twin Fires|Walter Prichard Eaton
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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