(trolleys)
1.
A
trolley is an object with wheels that you use to transport heavy things such as shopping or luggage. (
BRIT; in AM, use cart
)
A porter relieved her of the three large cases she had been pushing on a trolley.
...supermarket trolleys.
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2.
A
trolley is a small table on wheels which is used for serving drinks or food. (
BRIT; in AM, use cart
)
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3.
A
trolley is a bed on wheels for moving patients in hospital. (
BRIT; in AM, use gurney
)
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4.
A
trolley or
trolley car is an electric vehicle for carrying people which travels on rails in the streets of a town. (
AM; in BRIT, use tram
)
He took a northbound trolley on State Street.
= streetcar
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5.
If you say that someone is off their trolley, you mean that their ideas or behaviour are very strange. (BRIT INFORMAL)
= mad
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