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hill trolley
noun a billycart. Compare billy cart, go-cart, soapbox.
Contributor's comments: [Perth informant] I used this term when I was making and racing hill trolleys in my early teens - used to win all my races too.
Contributor's comments: [Perth informant] Yes. It was always a hill trolley for me; never a billy cart. I regarded that collocation as very American.
Contributor's comments: Old people sometimes called them soapboxes, presumably because soap used to be packaged in large wooden boxes that formed the part of the billycart that you sat in.
Contributor's comments: Only ever heard the term "hill trolley" Perth & WA. In Qld they were "Billy Carts" or "Billy Goat Carts". I think "Soap Box" is an unfortunate Americanism.