Lorry Load People Noun Bre ˈlɒri ˈlɔːri Driver

• a lorry driver
• emergency food supplies were brought in by lorry.
• a lorry load of frozen fish
• a dozen people suffered minor injuries after a lorry jackknifed on an icy m62.

lorry

1. a large vehicle for carrying heavy loads by road
• a lorry driver
• Emergency food supplies were brought in by lorry.
• a lorry load of frozen fish
2. goods that fell off the back of a lorry were probably stolen. People say or accept that they came ‘off the back of a lorry’ to avoid saying or asking where they really came from.

Extra Examples

• A dozen people suffered minor injuries after a lorry jackknifed on an icy M62.
• Her husband was a long-distance lorry driver.
• The lorry had shed its load under the bridge.
• The motorway was closed by an overturned lorry.
• a lorry laden with hay
• a refrigerated lorry carrying beer
• lorries travelling to and from local quarries
• 150 lorry loads of steel were used.
• The lorry rumbled over the bridge.

Word Origin

• mid 19th cent.: perhaps from the given name Laurie.