trolley bus
noun
a passenger bus operating on tires and having an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires.
Origin of trolley bus
1First recorded in 1910–15
- Also called trackless trolley, trolley coach .
Words Nearby trolley bus
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How to use trolley bus in a sentence
A male suicide bomber was also believed to have detonated the Monday blast, which decimated the back half of a trolley bus.
British Dictionary definitions for trolleybus
trolleybus
/ (ˈtrɒlɪˌbʌs) /
noun
an electrically driven public-transport vehicle that does not run on rails but takes its power from an overhead wire through a trolley
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