trolley car

Questions about trolley car

What does trolley car mean?

trolley car means "a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity".

What is another word for trolley car?

Close synonyms include streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is trolley car a common word?

trolley car is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.