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tea trolleys

tea trolleys is the plural of tea trolley.

Meaning of tea trolley

Noun

tea trolley (plural tea trolleys or tea trollies)

  1. (Commonwealth, especially) A table on wheels used to take food or drinks from the kitchen to the dining-room, or throughout a workplace for tea break.
    • About this, he is, as ever, humorous and self-deprecating, attributing his employment to the fact that the tea trolley arrived during his interview and “I'd been so well brought-up that I just naturally leaned over and said, ‘Would anyone like a cup of tea?’.[…]”2001 May 12, Robert Potts, “The poet at play”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    tea cart, tea wagon

Questions about tea trolleys

What is tea trolleys the plural of?
Tea trolleys is the plural of tea trolley.

Words near tea trolleys in the dictionary

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  6. tea trolleys
  7. tea trollies
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  10. tea wagon
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