trolley
/tɹˈɑli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.44 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus.
noun
A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.
noun
A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley.
Australian usage; New Zealand usage; British usage
noun
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Usage
- American usage
- Colloquial
- Australian usage
- New Zealand usage
- British usage