trolley🔊

A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus.

(US) A streetcar or light train. +

(US, colloquial) A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system.

A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.

A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.

(Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland) A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley.

Flatbed trolley.

(British) A hand truck.

(British) A soapbox car.

(British) A gurney, a stretcher with wheeled legs.

(Philippines) A handcar.

To bring to by trolley.

To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another.

To travel by trolley (streetcar, trolleybus or light train).