an open railway vehicle for carrying goods or animals
a cattle truck
a vehicle that is open at the back, used for carrying goods, soldiers, animals, etc.
a delivery/garbage/farm truck
a vehicle for carrying things, that is pulled or pushed by hand
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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