Trolley vs Wagon - What's the difference?
trolley | wagon |
(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.
To bring to by trolley.
To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another.
A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads.
A freight car on a railway.
A child's riding toy, four-wheeled and pulled or steered by a long handle in the front.
(US, Australia, slang) A station wagon (or SUV).
(slang) A paddy wagon.
A truck, or lorry.
(Ireland, slang, dated, derogatory) (A derogatory term for a woman); bitch; slapper; cow.
* 1974 , in Threshold , Issues 25–27, Lyric Players Theatre, page 96:
* 1990 , Roddy Doyle, The Snapper , Penguin Group (1992), ISBN 978-0-14-017167-9:
* 1998 , Neville Thompson, Two Birds/One Stoned , Poolbeg:
As nouns the difference between trolley and wagon
is that trolley is a cart or shopping cart while wagon is a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads.As verbs the difference between trolley and wagon
is that trolley is to bring to by trolley while wagon is to transport by means of a wagon.trolley
English
Alternative forms
* trollyNoun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* off one's trolley * trolleybus * trolley dolly * trolley jackVerb
wagon
English
Alternative forms
* waggon (UK)Noun
(en noun)- “I’m not like that; I know what you mean but I’m not like that. When you said a field I nearly laughed because I was in a field last week with Ursula Brogan behind the football pitch. We followed Cissy Caffery there and two boys from the secondary. She’s a wagon . She did it with them one after the other, and we watched.”
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: —Don’t know. ——She hates us. It’s prob’ly cos Daddy called her a wagon at tha’ meetin’. ¶ Sharon laughed. She got out of bed. ¶ —He didn’t really call Miss O’Keefe a wagon, she told Tracy. —He was only messin’ with yeh.
- page 8: “Well fuck yeh, yeh stuck-up little wagon .”