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trolleybus

British  
/ ˈtrɒlɪˌbʌs /

noun

  1. an electrically driven public-transport vehicle that does not run on rails but takes its power from an overhead wire through a trolley

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Most of the debris fell on open ground, he added, but some damaged cars and trolleybus cables.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2023

Metro maintains 70 miles of dual-wire trolleybus corridor, the second-largest system of just six in North America.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2018

“I’m singing the song on a tram in Melbourne, Australia, about a trolleybus ride I took with my late father Raymond in Reading, England, in 1964,” Hitchcock says.

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2017

Then, in winter, at Petrovsko-Razumovskaya, an unbearably grim corner of the universe where I had to ride a freezing trolleybus from the metro for 15 minutes passing a factory that made crutches.

From The Guardian ● May 28, 2014

I just bumped from my hotel to work and to parties and from parties to my hotel and back to work like a numb trolleybus.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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