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Trolley vs Stroller - What's the difference?

trolley | stroller |

As nouns the difference between stroller and trolley

is that stroller is a seat or chair on wheels, pushed by somebody walking behind it, typically used for transporting babies and young children while trolley is a cart or shopping cart.

As a verb trolley is

to bring to by trolley.

trolley

English

Alternative forms

* trolly

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (Australian, New Zealand, British) A cart or shopping cart.
  • (British) A hand truck.
  • (British) A .
  • (British) A gurney.
  • A single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electical line usually for a streetcar.
  • (US) A streetcar or a system of streetcars.
  • (US, colloquial) A light rail system or a train on such a 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.
  • Derived terms

    * off one's trolley * trolleybus * trolley dolly * trolley jack

    Verb

  • To bring to by trolley.
  • To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another.
  • stroller

    English

    (Baby transport)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A seat or chair on wheels, pushed by somebody walking behind it, typically used for transporting babies and young children.
  • One who strolls.
  • A vagrant.
  • * 1771 , Tobias Smollett, Humphry Clinker , Penguin Classics, 1985, p.41:
  • The mayor observed that it was great presumption in Wilson, who was a stroller , to proceed to such extremities with a gentleman of family and fortune; and threatened to commit him on the vagrant act.
  • Men's semiformal daytime dress comprising a grey or black single- or double-breasted coat, grey striped or checked formal trousers, a grey or silver necktie, and a grey, black or buff waistcoat.
  • Synonyms

    * (UK) pushchair * (UK) baby buggy

    See also

    * pram * pusher

    Anagrams

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