Definitions for trolley

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trolley trol·ley

Spelling: [trol-ee]

IPA: /ˈtrɒl i/

Trolley is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in trolley (ellorty).

Definitions for trolley

noun

1. trolley car.
2. a pulley or truck traveling on an overhead track and serving to support and move a suspended object.
3. a grooved metallic wheel or pulley carried on the end of a pole (trolley pole) by an electric car or locomotive, and held in contact with an overhead conductor, usually a suspended wire (trolley wire) from which it collects the current for the propulsion of the car or locomotive.
4. any of various devices for collecting current for such a purpose, as a pantograph, or a bowlike structure (bow trolley) sliding along an overhead wire, or a device (underground trolley) for taking current from the underground wire or conductor used by some electric railways.
5. a small truck or car operated on a track, as in a mine or factory.
6. a serving cart, as one used to serve desserts.
7. Chiefly British. any of various low carts or vehicles, as a railway handcar or costermonger's cart.

Idioms

1. off one's trolley, Slang. in a confused mental state. insane:

verb (used with or without object)

1. to convey or go by trolley.

Origin of trolley

First recorded in 1815-25; orig. dial.; apparently akin to troll¹

Examples for trolley

Not for my attitude in the trolley matter, nor for what I published in the Planet.

A male suicide bomber was also believed to have detonated the Monday blast, which decimated the back half of a trolley bus.

I brought her out here for a trolley ride and a picnic luncheon.

Large deals, of which the trolley Combine was but one, were on foot.

At the very least, it seems acceptable to reroute the trolley.

Hundreds of bees are whizzing circles around the Cotes as they stack honeycombs on the trolley.

Halfway to the trolley line, the dog turned off into a by-road.

Four men in army uniform are seen loading massive safes onto a trolley.

If you can get off for an hour, won't you take the trolley to the end of Division Street?

Daniel was strongly in favor of walking or going by trolley.