Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who strolls: elderly strollers in the park.
- n. A light chairlike carriage with three of four wheels for transporting small children.
- n. An itinerant actor or performer.
- n. A vagabond.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who strolls; a wanderer; a straggler; a vagabond; especially, an itinerant performer.
Wiktionary
- n. A seat or chair on wheels, pushed by somebody walking behind it, typically used for transporting babies and young children.
- n. One who strolls.
- n. A vagrant.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who strolls; a vagrant.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around
- n. someone who walks at a leisurely pace
Examples
“I feel my stroller is an obsence spectacle of bigness and unwieldiness and I hate to be such a bother ...”
“I’d like to avoidgetting a twin stroller if possible by wearing the baby and pushing Lil (if stroller is needed) or baby in stroller and Lil walking.”
“The stroller is jammed in the doorway and I get up to help.”
“A stroller is helpful for young children and a wheelchair will be provided, as needed, for older children.”
“The typical umbrella stroller is sufficient for all my needs (although my #3 feels uncomfortable for it now, so I use the Avalon).”
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“Maybe the stroller is for the bunny's future offspring.”
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“Regulators and Graco are telling parents to contact the company for a free repair kit, and say the hazards of the gap aren't a risk when the stroller is used with the infant car seat.”
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“My stroller is a used jogging stroller that my dad got me for $50 at a farm auction last summer.”
“The stroller is just fabulous, can't say enough about the different configurations, kids have no prob with back seat ... and it's not a tanker.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stroller’.
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Americanism
American words
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Mundane Transformers
Bore that meets the eye.
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Wordnik Spam Inquiries
We get a lot of spam emails at Wordnik that fit this pattern: "Mr Bob Wilson here and i will like to know if you do have X for sale". The words on this list represent a subset of such requested items.
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American English that's not in Irish ...
Well-known phrases in American English that aren't understood in Irish English.
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Some new Wordie words this week
Don't tell them they are not real--they might cry.
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Just another sorting device.
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complicated words
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January
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Tweets
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ruzuzu "One who strolls; a wanderer; a straggler; a vagabond; especially, an itinerant performer."
--CD&C Mar 8, 2013
jodi AmE; for IrE use pram Apr 18, 2011