Definitions for Dolly

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Dolly dol·ly

Spelling: [dol-ee]

IPA: /ˈdɒl i/

Dolly is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in Dolly (dlloy).

Definitions for Dolly

noun

1. Informal. a doll.
2. a low truck or cart with small wheels for moving loads too heavy to be carried by hand.
3. Movies, Television. a small wheeled platform, usually having a short boom, on which a camera can be mounted for making moving shots.
4. Machinery. a tool for receiving and holding the head of a rivet while the other end is being headed.
5. a block placed on the head of a pile being driven to receive the shock of the blows.
6. a small locomotive operating on narrow-gauge tracks, especially in quarries, construction sites, etc.
7. a short, wooden pole with a hollow dishlike base for stirring clothes while laundering them.
8. Slang. a tablet of Dolophine.
9. Also called dolly bird. British Informal. an attractive girl or young woman.
10. (sometimes initial capital letter) Slang. an affectionate or familiar term of address, as to a child or romantic partner (sometimes offensive when used to strangers, casual acquaintances, subordinates, etc., especially by a male to a female).
11. a female given name, form of Doll.

verb (used with object)

1. to transport or convey (a camera) by means of a dolly.

verb (used without object)

1. to move a camera on a dolly, especially toward or away from the subject being filmed or televised (often followed by in or out):

Origin of Dolly

1600-10; 1900-05 for def 9; doll + -y²

Examples for Dolly

Thank you, Boy, for not letting them squirt water on my dolly's clean dress.

As for just what a producer does, the credit is likely the most misunderstood in the business (besides the dolly grip).

You haven't any political secrets that dolly wants to get at, have you?

With dolly dreading a return across the Atlantic to singledom, Emily strikes upon the idea that she could stay as a temporary PA.

Next came dolly, after a big sorrel mare; and Paul, after a freckled pinto; and so on down the line.

dolly, he said, was too tired after her journey to do more than send a friendly greeting to them.

And here he exchanged a grin with Hugh, who removed his eyes from dolly for the purpose.

I am got above minding my brother, cousin dolly:—he is but my brother.

"It is hot and it is ready," says Bernice Michaud, who has been waitressing at dolly's for over a quarter century.

dolly Parton, although rumored to be heterosexual, certainly has a big place in the gay world.