trolley car

noun

a streetcar propelled electrically by current taken by means of a trolley from a conducting wire strung overhead or running beneath a slot between the tracks.

Origin of trolley car

First recorded in 1885–90

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Kirk asked, for the twentieth time since they had left the train for the trolley-car.
The Happy Venture|Edith Ballinger Price
Or are this trolley-car conductor, this gayly uniformed hall-porter, sons of the Hieronic colonists?
Vistas in Sicily|Arthur Stanley Riggs
Results followed fast, and soon we had the incandescent lamp, trolley-car, electric pen and many other inventions.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 1 of 14|Elbert Hubbard
Italy was strongly against any foreign invasion, aside from the American trolley-car.
The Lure of the Mask|Harold MacGrath

A trolley-car swirled me across the river, now glistering in the spring sunshine.
The Long Day|Dorothy Richardson

British Dictionary definitions for trolley car

trolley car

noun

US and Canadian another word for streetcar

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trolley car

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