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Truck Carrying Trʌk Vehicle Cattle Heavy Noun Bre

Word truck
WordType (noun)
Phonetic BrE / trʌk / NAmE / trʌk /
Example
  • a truck driver
  • a cattle truck
  • a delivery/garbage/farm truck
  • a convoy of heavy trucks rumbled past.
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truck

(noun)BrE / trʌk / NAmE / trʌk /
  1. a large vehicle for carrying heavy loads by road
    • a truck driver
  2. an open railway vehicle for carrying goods or animals
    • a cattle truck
  3. a vehicle that is open at the back, used for carrying goods, soldiers, animals, etc.
    • a delivery/garbage/farm truck
  4. a vehicle for carrying things, that is pulled or pushed by hand
  5. to refuse to deal with somebody; to refuse to accept or consider something
    • We in this party will have no truck with illegal organizations.

    Extra Examples

    • A convoy of heavy trucks rumbled past.
    • Behind them, the fuel truck exploded.
    • She heard the truck parking in front of the building.
    • Zach was playing with a toy truck on the floor.
    • a monster truck rally
    • a truck carrying sacks of vegetables
    • a truck load of grain
    • sales of cars and light trucks
    • A tanker truck filled with gas exploded on the highway.
    • An ammunition truck exploded just yards from the station.
    • He was driving a dump truck loaded with gravel.
    • The bus crashed into a truck loaded with timber.
    • The only way of getting out of the city was in a cattle truck.
    • The soldiers were travelling in the back of the truck.
    • The truck came loose from the engine and began to roll backwards.
    • a cattle/coal truck

    Word Origin

    • Middle English (denoting a solid wooden wheel): perhaps short for truckle in the sense ‘wheel, pulley’. The sense ‘wheeled vehicle’ dates from the late 18th cent.
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