<p><strong>noun</strong></p><ul><li>Slang: a doll.</li><li>a low truck or cart with small wheels for moving loads too heavy to be carried by hand.</li><li>Movies, Television: a small wheeled platform, usually having a short boom, on which a camera can be mounted for making moving shots.</li><li>Machinery: a tool for receiving and holding the head of a rivet while the other end is being headed.</li><li>a block placed on the head of a pile being driven to receive the shock of the blows.</li><li>a small locomotive operating on narrow-gauge tracks, especially in quarries, construction sites, etc.</li><li>a short, wooden pole with a hollow dishlike base for stirring clothes while laundering them.</li><li>Slang: a tablet of Dolophine.</li><li>Also called dollly bird: British Informal: an attractive girl or young woman.</li><li>(sometimes initial capital letter) Slang: an affectionate or familiar term of address, as to a child or romantic partner (sometimes offensive when used to strangers, casual acquaintances, subordinates, etc., especially by a male to a female).</li></ul><p><strong>verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to transport or convey (a camera) by means of a dolly.</li></ul><p><strong>verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to move a camera on a dolly, especially toward or away from the subject being filmed or televised (often followed by in or out): to dolly in for a close-up.</li></ul>