trolley car

noun

a streetcar propelled electrically by current taken by means of a trolley from a conducting wire strung overhead or running beneath a slot between the tracks.

Origin of trolley car

First recorded in 1885–90

Words nearby trolley car

troke, troland, troll, trolley, trolley bus, trolley car, trolley dolly, trolley line, trolleybus, trolleyed, trolleys

Example sentences from the Web for trolley car

Kirk asked, for the twentieth time since they had left the train for the trolley-car.

The Happy Venture |Edith Ballinger Price
Or are this trolley-car conductor, this gayly uniformed hall-porter, sons of the Hieronic colonists?

Vistas in Sicily |Arthur Stanley Riggs
Results followed fast, and soon we had the incandescent lamp, trolley-car, electric pen and many other inventions.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 1 of 14 |Elbert Hubbard
Italy was strongly against any foreign invasion, aside from the American trolley-car.

The Lure of the Mask |Harold MacGrath

A trolley-car swirled me across the river, now glistering in the spring sunshine.

The Long Day |Dorothy Richardson

British Dictionary definitions for trolley car

trolley car

noun

US and Canadian another word for streetcar

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trolley car

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trolley car

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