trolley

Meanings

Noun

• A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley.
• A hand truck.
• A soapbox car.
• A gurney.
• 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.
• A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system.
• A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
• A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.

Verb

• To bring to by trolley.
• To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another.
• To travel by trolley (streetcar, trolleybus or light train).

Origin

• Early 19th century (1823) meaning "cart", of dialectal origin (Suffolk), probably from troll + -ey.