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trolleyful en · NOUN

Etymology

From trolley + -ful.

Meanings

1. As much as a trolley will hold.
   • Watch the great trolleysful of cat and dog food, cat litter, bird seed and hamster bedding wheeled through the check-outs each weekend if you doubt our animal-mania. 1985 February 18, “Tell us about your animals”, in Birmingham Evening Mail, page 5:
   • Children row around in rubber dinghies, self-importantly pointing out hero daddies; trolleysful of tinned curry sauce and six-packs of beer are transferred down hatches with a blithe disregard for deadweight. 1984, Libby Purves, “At Millbay Dock”, in Libby Purves, Trevor Grove, editors, Single Handed: The Observer/Europe 1 Singlehanded Transatlantic Race, London: Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 19:
   • Ringleader, Sheila Laking (46), who allowed the women to take “trolleysful” of groceries through her checkout at discount prices was jailed. 1987 May 30, “Housewives swindled store”, in Lincolnshire Echo:

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