- (British English) (North American English cart)a small vehicle with wheels that can be pushed or pulled along and is used for carrying things
- a shopping/supermarket/luggage trolley
Extra ExamplesTopics Shoppingb2, Sports: ball and racket sportsb2- Passengers with trolleys piled high with luggage waited at the check-in desk.
- the problem of abandoned trolleys littering the countryside
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- laden
- loaded
- drinks
- …
- load
- pile
- push
- …
- service
- dash
- on a/the trolley
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- (British English) (US English cart, wagon)a small table on very small wheels, used for carrying or serving food or drink
- a drinks trolley
- a tea trolley
Extra Examples- The waiter was pushing a laden sweet trolley towards our table.
- They brought breakfast to the room on a trolley.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- laden
- loaded
- drinks
- …
- load
- pile
- push
- …
- service
- dash
- on a/the trolley
- (also streetcar)(both US English)(British English tram, tramcar)a vehicle driven by electricity, that runs on rails along the streets of a town and carries passengers see also trackless trolleyOxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + trolley
- catch
- ride
- take
- …
- bus
- car
- line
- …
Word Originearly 19th cent.: of dialect origin, perhaps from the verb troll.
Idioms
See trolley in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryoff your trolley
- (British English, informal) crazy; stupid
- If Wilcox is thinking of doing this deal he must be going totally off his trolley.
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