Dolly

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Dolly is often used as the diminutive name a doll. It may also refer to one of the following:

In tools

Dolly (tool), a portable anvil
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

In people

Dolly is often used as the diminutive for the English personal name Dorothy.

Dolly Ahluwalia, Indian costume designer and actress
Doyle Brunson (born 1933), professional poker player known as "Dolly" or "Texas Dolly"
Dolly Buster (born 1969), porn actress
Dolly Collins (1933–1995), British musician
nickname of Basil D'Oliveira (1931–2011), cricketer
nickname of Derek Draper (born 1967), British former lobbyist
Robert 'Dolly' Dunn (1941–2009), Australian paedophile
William Denton Dolly Gray (1878–1956), baseball pitcher for the Washington Senators from 1909 to 1911
Dolly Haas (1910–1994), German-American singer and entertainer; wife of caricaturist Al Hirschfeld
Dolly Hall (born 1960), American film producer
Dolly Jacobs (born c. 1957), American circus aerialist
William Dolly King (1916–1969), American basketball player; one of a handful of African Americans to play in the National Basketball League
Dolly Parton (born 1946), American entertainer
Dolly Peel (1782–1857), celebrity in Victorian England; fishwife, smuggler, nurse and poet
Dolly Pentreath (died 1777), probably the last fluent native speaker of the Cornish language prior to its revival in 1904
Dolly Rathebe (1928–2004), South African musician and actress
Dolly Shepherd (1887–1983), English parachutist and fairground entertainer
Albert D. Dolly Stark (umpire) (1897–1968), baseball umpire from 1928–1935, 1937–1940
Monroe Randolph Dolly Stark (1885–1924), baseball shortstop for the Cleveland Naps and Brooklyn Dodgers from 1909 to 1912
Dolly Vanderlip (born 1937), pitcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1952 to 1954

In places

Dolly's Cay or Dolly's Rock, Bahamas

In media and entertainment

Film

Dolly shot, a film sequence
In the film Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure, short for Dolichorhynchops
One of Bonnie's toys in the film Toy Story 3

Music

Artists

Dolly (French band), rock band
Dolly (Japanese band), rock band

Works

Dolly (Fauré), collection of pieces for piano duet by Gabriel Fauré
Little Dolly Daydream, a music hall song written by English Edwardian musical comedy composer Leslie Stuart.

Print

Dolly (magazine), Australian publication

Television

Dolly (TV series), 1987 television show starring Dolly Parton
Dolly!, a 1976 television show starring Dolly Parton

In other uses

A child's word for doll
Dolly (sheep), the first mammal cloned from differentiated cells
Tropical Storm Dolly (disambiguation), various cyclones, typhoons and storms
Dolly or dollies, a slang term for the drug Mephedrone
Dolly, is the name of the fanclub for Korean Girl Group F-ve Dolls