Usually means: Wheeled platform for moving loads.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. dolly: Merriam-Webster
  2. dolly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dolly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dolly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dolly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dolly, dolly: Wordnik
  7. dolly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Dolly, dolly: Wiktionary
  9. dolly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dolly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dolly: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dolly: Dictionary.com
  13. dolly: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dolly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dolly (French band), Dolly (Japanese band), Dolly (TV series), Dolly (album), Dolly (clone), Dolly (company), Dolly (disambiguation), Dolly (magazine), Dolly (name), Dolly (sheep), Dolly (tool), Dolly (trailer), Dolly, Dolly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dolly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dolly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dolly: Rhymezone
  19. Dolly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dolly: FreeDictionary.org
  21. dolly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Dolly: The Word Detective
  23. dolly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. dolly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. dolly: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Trucking Terms (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dolly: The Difference
  2. dolly: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dolly, dolly, dolly, dolly, dolly, dolly, dolly, dolly, dolly: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Dolly: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  4. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  5. FASHION AND DESIGN (No longer online)
  6. dolly: Television: Critical Methods and Applications

(Note: See dollied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (childish, colloquial) A doll.
noun:  (cooking) A roughly cylindrical wooden object used as a base when molding pie crust.
noun:  A contrivance for stirring:
noun:  A disc with downward legs and a vertical handle, used for agitating laundry.
noun:  A device turned on a vertical axis by a handle or a winch, giving a circular motion to ore being washed.
noun:  A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.
noun:  In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.
noun:  A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.
noun:  A small truck without means of steering, to be slipped under a load.
noun:  An unpowered vehicle (trailer) designed for connection to a tractor unit, truck or prime mover vehicle, with strong traction power.
noun:  A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.
noun:  (film) A specialized piece of film equipment resembling a little cart on which a camera is mounted.
noun:  (slang) A young woman, especially one who is frivolous or vapid.
noun:  (slang, UK, dated) A fashionable young woman, one who follows the latest music or clothing fashions.
noun:  (cricket, dated) A ball hit by a batsman such that it goes gently to a fielder for a simple catch.
noun:  (gambling) A marker placed on the winning number by the dealer at roulette.
noun:  (obsolete) An old gambling device, found in dolly shops, with the figure of an old man or "dolly", and a spiral hole down which a dropped marble would proceed to one of a set of numbered holes.
verb:  (transitive, cricket) To hit a dolly.
verb:  (transitive) To move (an object) using a dolly.
verb:  (transitive) To wash (laundry) in a tub using the stirring device called a dolly.
verb:  (transitive) To beat (red-hot metal) with a hammer.
verb:  (transitive) To crush ore with a dolly.
adjective:  (Polari) Pretty; attractive.
adjective:  (Yorkshire, especially Sheffield) left-handed (also dolly-handed, dolly-pawed, dolly-posh)
noun:  (India) An offering of fruit or flowers.
noun:  A diminutive of the female given names Dorothy, Dolores, or Doris.
noun:  Short for dolly shop. [(UK, obsolete) An unlicensed pawnshop where rags, old junk, and like items are bought and sold.]
noun:  (poker) Ellipsis of Dolly Parton. [(slang, poker) A nine and a five as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.]
noun:  Ellipsis of Dolly Varden trout. [A salmonid fish, Salvelinus malma, native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America.]

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