trolley

plural trolleys · plural trollies · alternative trolly

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

   Gremlinesque behaviour might not be very obvious to an America, who would accept as perfectly natural the quaintly pixilated sayings and doings that are happening in subways, in trolleys, on buses, in bars at all times of the day and night.

   1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 107

   Synonyms: tram, trolley car

3. UScolloquialA light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system.

   The only way to stop the trolley is to shove the man off the bridge and into the trolley’s path, killing him but saving the five.

   2008 February 3, Paul Bloom, “Morality Studies”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022

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

   Synonyms: crane trolley, traveling trolley

5. A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.
6. AustraliaIrelandNew ZealandUKA cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley.

   About a shopping trolley, I thought I'd let ye know. Ya'd try to push it straight but it never seems ta go. Ya'd wobble through the car park, hopping off the cars. Anyone would think ya had a few auld jars.

   2013 March 15, “The Shopping Trolley” (track 10), in Horsing Around, performed by Richie Kavanagh

7. abbreviationclippingClipping of flatbed trolley.
8. UKA hand truck.
9. UKA soapbox car.
10. UKA gurney, a stretcher with wheeled legs.
11. PhilippinesA handcar.

present singular third person trolleys · participle present trolleying · participle past trolleyed · past trolleyed · participle past trollied · past trollied · alternative trolly

1. To bring to by trolley.
2. To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another.
3. To travel by trolley (streetcar, trolleybus or light train).