Meanings
plural tea trolleys · plural tea trollies
- CommonwealthespeciallyA table on wheels used to take food or drinks from the kitchen to the dining-room, or throughout a workplace for tea break.
About this, he is, as ever, humorous and self-deprecating, attributing his employment to the fact that the tea trolley arrived during his interview and “I'd been so well brought-up that I just naturally leaned over and said, ‘Would anyone like a cup of tea?’.[…]”
2001 May 12, Robert Potts, “The poet at play”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA table on wheels used to take food or drinks from the kitchen to the dining-room, or throughout a workplace for tea break.
More synonyms by meaning
nounserving cart for serving tea or light refreshments
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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tea trolley. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tea%20trolley
“tea trolley.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tea%20trolley. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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