trollies
trollies is the plural of trolley.
trollies is the plural of trolly.
Meaning of trolley
Noun
trolley (plural trolleys or trollies)
- A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus.
- A streetcar or light train.
- 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.1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 107
- Synonyms:
- tram, trolley car
- A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system.
- A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
- Synonyms:
- crane trolley, traveling trolley
- A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.
- A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley.
- 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.2013 March 15, “The Shopping Trolley” (track 10), in Horsing Around, performed by Richie Kavanagh
Meaning of trolly
Noun
trolly (plural trollies)
Phrases with trollies
Questions about trollies
- What is trollies the plural of?
- Trollies is the plural of trolley.
Words near trollies in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: trollies (page history and authors); trolley (page history and authors); trolly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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