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.
- 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
See also
- Dolley (disambiguation)
- Dollie (disambiguation)