trolley: Meaning and Definition of

trol•ley

1. a trolley car.
2. a pulley or truck traveling on an overhead track and serving to support and move a suspended object.
3. a grooved metallic wheel or pulley carried on the end of a pole by an electric car or locomotive, and held in contact with an overhead conductor, usually a suspended wire from which it collects the current for the propulsion of the car or locomotive.
4. any of various devices for collecting current for such a purpose, as a pantograph, or a bowlike structuresliding along an overhead wire, or a devicefor taking current from the underground wire or conductor used by some electric railways.
5. a small truck or car operated on a track, as in a mine or factory.
6. a serving cart, as one used to serve desserts.
7. any of various low carts or vehicles, as a railway handcar or costermonger's cart.
8. He's been off his trolley for years, but his family refuses to have him committed.
1. in a confused mental state.
2. insane:He's been off his trolley for years, but his family refuses to have him committed.

1. to convey or go by trolley.