Usually means: Wheeled vehicle for transporting goods.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. trolley: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. trolley: Merriam-Webster
  3. trolley: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. trolley: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. trolley: Collins English Dictionary
  6. trolley: Vocabulary.com
  7. Trolley, trolley: Wordnik
  8. trolley: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Trolley: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. trolley: Wiktionary
  11. trolley: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. trolley (trolly): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. trolley: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. trolley: Dictionary.com
  15. trolley: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. trolley: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Trolley (horse-drawn), Trolley: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Trolley: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. trolley: Rhymezone
  20. Trolley: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. trolley: FreeDictionary.org
  22. trolley: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. trolley: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Trolley (disambiguation), Trolley (rail), Trolley (railway), Trolley (streetcar), trolley: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trolley: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trolley: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. trolley, trolley: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Trolley: A Seattle Lexicon
  3. trolley: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See trolleyed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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:  (US) A streetcar or light train.
noun:  (US, colloquial) A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system.
noun:  A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
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:  (Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland) A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley.
noun:  (British) A hand truck.
noun:  (British) A soapbox car.
noun:  (British) A gurney, a stretcher with wheeled legs.
noun:  (Philippines) A handcar.
verb:  To bring to by trolley.
verb:  To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another.
verb:  To travel by trolley (streetcar, trolleybus or light train).
noun:  Clipping of flatbed trolley. [A manually-operated, wheeled, low and even platform used for the transport of materials; especially one attached to a frame and handle, or more than one handle.]

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