tow truck

tow truck

n (Automotive Engineering) a motor vehicle equipped for towing away wrecked or disabled cars. Also called: breakdown van or wrecker (US and Canadian)

wreck•er

(ˈrɛk ər)

n. 1. a person or thing that wrecks. 2. a person, car, or train employed in removing wreckage, debris, etc., as from railroad tracks. 3. Also called tow car , tow truck. a vehicle equipped with a mechanical apparatus for hoisting and pulling, used to tow wrecked, disabled, or stalled automobiles. 4. a person or business that demolishes and removes houses or other buildings, as in clearing sites for other use. 5. a person or vessel employed in recovering salvage from wrecked or disabled vessels. 6. a person who plunders wrecks, esp. after exhibiting false signals in order to cause shipwrecks. [1795–1805]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

tow truck - a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones)tow car, wreckermotortruck, truck - an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling

Translations

抛锚的卡车

tow truck

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