Definition of trolleys Trolleys
/tɹɑˈliz/ - [traleez] -
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What does trolleys mean?
Wiktionary 
- trolleys (Noun)
Plural of trolley.
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| trolley - a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity | ||
| streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley car | ||
| self-propelled vehicle a wheeled vehicle that carries in itself a means of propulsion | ||
| trolley line a transit line using streetcars or trolley buses | ||
| britain, u.k., uk, united kingdom, united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, great britain a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom | ||
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Wiktionary
- trolley (Noun)
A cart or shopping cart . - trolley (Noun)
A hand truck . - trolley (Noun)
A Soapbox soapbox car . - trolley (Noun)
A gurney. - trolley (Noun)
A single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electical line usually for a streetcar. - trolley (Noun)
A streetcar or a system of streetcars. - trolley (Noun)
A light rail system or a train on such a system. - trolley (Noun)
A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes. - trolley (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. - trolley (Verb)
To bring to by trolley. - trolley (Verb)
To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- trolley (n.)
Alt. of Trolly
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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trolley
Wire basket fastened to a frame with wheels which customers use for collecting purchases in a store.
Electrical DictionaryThe Standard Electrical Dictionary 💡
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trolley
A grooved metallic pulley or set of pulleys which runs along an active wire of a circuit, a lead from which trolley goes to earth or connects with another wire, so that the trolley takes current generally for operating a street car motor placed upon the circuit leading from it; a rolling contact with an electric lead.Trolleys are principally used on electric railroads, and are now universally of the sub-wire system, being at the end of a pole which is inclined backward and forced upward by springs, so as to press the trolley against the bottom of the wire. Thus the trolley does not increase the sagging of the wire, but tends to push it up a little in its passage.
Wikipedia 
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A trolley is a small vehicle with wheels that can carry things. People can push trolleys.
There are different kind of trolleys. There are shopping trolleys which are used in supermarkets and other large stores with self-service. In American English these are called shopping carriages or shopping carts. Customers can put things they want to buy in the trolley and then pay for everything at the checkout. Usually they are then allowed to wheel the trolley with the things they have bought out to their car.
Sometimes the customers have to pay a small deposit when collecting a trolley. The trolleys are chained together. The customer puts in a coin (in Britain a £1 coin) which he can have back again when he parks the trolley back in the trolley chain.
Trolleys are used in airports and some large railway stations for passengers to carry their luggage.
A trolley can also be a tea-trolley. This is a small trolley used traditionally in the house for plates, cups, saucers and sandwiches and cakes for afternoon tea. Tea-trolleys are also used in hospitals and offices to take cups of tea and coffee to people.
In American English "trolley" can be used to mean a tram (or streetcar). This is not to be confused with a trolleybus which is a bus which uses electricity from an overhead cable (like a tram).
Trivia.
When someone says "He is off his trolley" it means that he is crazy.
