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stroller

UK/ˈstɹəʊlə/US/ˈstɹoʊlɚ/
nounB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #8,847 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: strollers

A stroller is the wheeled chair a baby is pushed around in. Fold the stroller, a lightweight stroller, push the stroller.

It is American; Britain says pushchair or buggy, and a pram is the older kind the baby lies flat in. Airlines let you take one to the aircraft door, which is why almost every model now folds one-handed.

Amaury Laporte · CC BY 2.0

Definitions of stroller

  1. 1nounstrollerThe wheeled chair a baby is pushed around in.B1+

    “She pushed the baby in a stroller through the park.”

stroller is a vehicle.

Also accepted in games: pushchair, pram, buggy

Where it comes from

  1. gsw

    strolchen

  2. German

    strollen

  3. English

    stroll

  4. English, today

    stroller

Built from

  • Strolch · German — vagabond; rascal

From stroll + -er. stroll Borrowed from German strollen, a variant of gsw strolchen, from Strolch (“vagabond; rascal”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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stroller in the wild

  • A stroller is a form of baby transport.

    Stroller (disambiguation)

  • The synonymous term stroller typically refers to street children living a bergie lifestyle.

    Bergie

  • When used for airline travel the strollers and car seats are placed in gate check bags at the departure gate before boarding.

    Gate check bag

  • Meanwhile, Rosa competes against Teddy to win a stroller that Amy has her eyes set on.

    Ransom (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)

  • A stroller, also known as a pushchair or buggy (British English), is a wheeled device used for transporting infants and young children.

    Stroller

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the Strolch family

strollstroller

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