trucknoun
uk/trʌk/us/trʌk/truck noun (VEHICLE)
B1 [ C ] UK also lorry a large road vehicle that is used for transporting large amounts of goods:
The road was completely blocked by an overturned truck.
a truck driver
See also
dumper truck
forklift truck
pickup truck
[ C ] UK US car a part of a train that is used for carrying goods or animals:
Hundreds of refugees were herded into cattle trucks for the gruelling ten-hour journey.
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- Every few kilometres we passed a burned-out jeep or truck at the side of the road.
- Long-distance truck drivers often use CB radio to talk to each other.
- Hundreds of trucks full of fruit and vegetables trundle across the border each day.
- The sheep were loaded onto trucks.
- The car skidded and went out of control, crashing into an oncoming truck.
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Trucks, vans & caravans
- armored car
- armoured car
- bakkie
- bowser
- breakdown truck
- caravan
- Dormobile
- dustcart
- flatbed
- float
- heavy goods vehicle
- JCB
- juggernaut
- lorry
- milk truck
- pantechnicon
- snowplough
- tender
- traction engine
- ute
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Railways: trains & parts of trains
truck noun (INVOLVEMENT)
have no truck with sth/sb
to refuse to become involved with something or someone because you do not approve of it, him, or her
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Abstaining and refraining
- abstain
- abstemious
- abstention
- abstinence
- back off
- fast
- forborne
- give
- give (sth) up
- give up sth
- hors de combat
- keep
- keep (sb/sth) out of sth
- step
- step back
- stop
- stop short of sth idiom
- swear off sth
- touch
- wouldn't touch sth with a barge pole idiom
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truckverb [ T usually + adv/prep ]
uk/trʌk/us/trʌk/mainly USto transport something somewhere in a truck:
Most of the aid is being trucked into the city, although some is arriving by boat.
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Delivering and despatching
- air drop
- air-dash
- airlift
- consign
- containerize
- despatch
- drop
- enclose
- fire
- fire sth off
- forward
- get sth in
- reroute
- route
- send
- send sth in
- send sth off
- shipping
- trot
- trot sb out
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Transferring and transporting objects
trucking
noun [ U ] uk/ˈtrʌk.ɪŋ/us/ˈtrʌk.ɪŋ/US UK road haulage
The railroads can't really compete with trucking companies.
Idiom(s)
keep on trucking