trolley
Other forms: trolleys
A trolley is a vehicle that carries many people and is powered by overhead electrical cables. You can also call a trolley a "tram," "cable car," or "streetcar."
If you've ridden a streetcar up and down the hills of San Francisco, you know what a trolley is. Trolleys often travel on rails that are built into the street, using electricity that comes from a third rail or overhead lines. Anyone who grew up watching "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" on TV will remember the model Neighborhood Trolley that carried viewers into the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
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a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is often propelled by electricitysynonyms: streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley cartypes:horsecaran early form of streetcar that was drawn by horsestype of:self-propelled vehiclea wheeled vehicle that carries in itself a means of propulsion
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