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  1. v. Simple past tense and past participle of trolley.

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  • “We could have ding-ding-ding went the trolleyed all through lunch.”

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  • “She married Prince Andrew in 1986, and even before they were trolleyed through London in an open-top, horse-drawn carriage in front of cheering crowds there were plenty of people who had doubts about the wisdom of red-head Sarah joining the "royal firm.”

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  • “It was trolleyed out onto the dining floor and carved at our table by a highly theatrical carver.”

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  • “I think when I was that age I was more interested in socialising by which I mean going out and getting trolleyed and the ladies than sitting in rooms debating policy positions with the type of people who were generally considered geeks.”

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  • “He also meditates on the long menu of Irish terms for drunkenness: "spannered, rat-arsed, cabbaged, and hammered; ruined, legless, scorched, and blottoed; or simply trolleyed or sloshed.”

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  • “The guy is totally trolleyed as per usual and asks Dave where he's off too.”

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  • “Plot, Loretta trolleyed herself down into the Noise Belt.”

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  • “She said that no country which suffered such a thing could be truly civilized, though he made her observe that no city in the world, except Boston or Brooklyn, was probably so thoroughly trolleyed as Hamburg.”

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  • “Hamburg made by her much-trolleyed Bostonian effect; by the decorous activity and Parisian architecture of her business streets; by the turmoil of her quays, and the innumerable masts and chimneys of her shipping.”

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  • “Farther up, we "trolleyed" past a very tall grand fir.”

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  • hernesheir Drink too much; get troll-eyed. Sep 28, 2011

  • bilby Ooh, hadn't thought about spellings, yarbecued eggplant.

    Auntie Merriam says

    "trollied
    One entry found.

    Main Entry: 2trolley
    Variant(s): also trolly
    Function: verb
    Inflected Form(s): trol·leyed also trol·lied; trol·ley·ing also trol·ly·ing
    Date: 1882" Mar 29, 2009

  • yarb I reckon trollied is the more common spelling. Unless you're so trollied that your eyes resemble those of a troll. Mar 29, 2009

  • bilby "I don't know how many he'd had by the time he got there but he was trolleyed. Off the scale."
    - overheard (in Australia), 28 March 2009. Mar 29, 2009

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