trolley bus

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noun

a passenger bus operating on tires and having an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires.

Origin of trolley bus

First recorded in 1910–15

Also called trackless trolley, trolley coach .

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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.
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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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