Dolly Explained

Dolly may refer to:

Tools

• Dolly (tool), a portable anvil
• Dolly pot, also known as a dolly, a portable tool used for crushing small quantities of ore-bearing rock, by hand, in a process known as dollying
• A posser, also known as a dolly, used for laundering
• A variety of wheeled tools, including:
  • Dolly (trailer), for towing behind a vehicle
  • Boat dolly or launching dolly, a device for launching small boats into the water
  • Camera dolly, platform that enables a movie or video camera to move during shots
  • Hand truck, sometimes called a dolly
  • Flatbed trolley, sometimes called a dolly

People

• Dolly (name), a list of people with the given name or nickname
• Dolly Parton, American singer (born 1946)

In arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• One of Bonnie's toys in the film Toy Story 3
• Dolly Gopher, in the television film Re-Animated
• Dolly Gallagher Levi, in the movie Hello Dolly
• Dolly for Sue, from the 1964 film Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
• Dolly (character), from The Story of Tracy Beaker
• In the film , short for Dolichorhynchops
• One of the characters from 101 Dalmatian Street
• Dolly Mishra, a character played by Kareena Kapoor in the 2006 Indian film Omkara
• Dolly, a self-titled character played by Dolly Ahluwalia in the 2012 Indian film Vicky Donor

Film and television

• Dolly shot, a type of film sequence
• Dolly (film), a 1929 French silent film directed by Pierre Colombier
• Dolly (1976 TV series), a television show starring Dolly Parton
• Dolly (1987 TV series), a television show starring Dolly Parton

Music

• Dolly (French band)
• Dolly (Japanese band)
• Dolly (Fauré), a collection of duet pieces for piano by Gabriel Fauré
• Dolly (album), a 1975 album by Dolly Parton
• Dolly (song), a song by rapper Lil Tecca feat. Lil Uzi Vert

Print

• Dolly (magazine), an Australian publication
• "Dolly" (story), a 2011 short story by Elizabeth Bear

Other uses

• Tropical Storm Dolly, various storms
• Dolly (sheep), the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell
• Dolly (company), a Brazilian company and soft drink brand
• Dolly's Cay, or Dolly's Rock, Bahamas
• Mephedrone, drug referred to in slang as "dolly" or "dollies"
• Dolly, fanclub of the Korean musical group F-ve Dolls

See also

• Dolly mixture, a British confection
• Dolley, a similarly spelled given name
• Doily, an ornamental mat
• Deccani cinema or Dollywood, Deccani/Hyderabadi Urdu film industry in India
• Dollie (disambiguation)