1
: a wheeled vehicle for moving heavy articles: such as
a
: a strong horse-drawn or automotive vehicle (such as a pickup) for hauling
b
: an automotive vehicle with a short chassis equipped with a swivel for attaching a trailer and used especially for the highway hauling of freight
also
: a truck with attached trailer
c
: a small barrow consisting of a rectangular frame having at one end a pair of handles and at the other end a pair of small heavy wheels and a projecting edge to slide under a load
called also hand truck
d
: a small heavy rectangular frame supported on four wheels for moving heavy objects
e
: a small flat-topped car pushed or pulled by hand
f
: a shelved stand mounted on casters
2
a
British
: an open railroad freight car
b
: a swiveling carriage consisting of a frame with one or more pairs of wheels and springs to carry and guide one end (as of a railroad car) in turning sharp curves
3
: a small wheel
specifically
: a small strong wheel for a gun carriage
4
: a small wooden cap at the top of a flagstaff or masthead usually having holes for reeving flag or signal halyards
trucked; trucking; trucks
: to load or transport on a truck
1
: to roll along especially in an easy untroubled way
2
: to transport goods by truck
3
: to be employed in driving a truck
trucked; trucking; trucks
1
: to exchange commodities : barter
2
: to negotiate or traffic especially in an underhanded way : have dealings
Synonyms
Examples of truck in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2024
As Israeli tanks and ground troops moved to surround the southern Gazan city of Khan Younis, civilian deaths increased during January and the number of aid trucks allowed to enter plummeted.
—Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
The process of our engineer Steve more or less tearing down his entire studio, putting it in a truck, and moving it that far away, and then taking it out of the truck, resetting it all up, plugging it back in, hundreds of cables and things—that process in itself would have eaten a week of our time.
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 5 Apr. 2024
For fans of the show, there was one telltale giveaway: Some of the clips show Squad 3 emblazoned on the truck, the number of the unit depicted in the series.
—USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
At a general store in New Jersey, near the epicenter of the earthquake, the sound was so loud that the staff thought a truck had crashed into the building.
—Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
Lightning best resale value in the electric truck category.
—Detroit Free Press, 5 Apr. 2024
As much as $100 million in jewels and valuables was taken from the truck.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
As if fossil fuels weren’t harming our public lands enough through heat-trapping carbon emissions, The Times’ Lila Seidman reports that America’s four most polluted national parks are all in California, with gas-guzzling cars and trucks largely to blame.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
Typically they are trucked in to provide a stable source of power.
—Catherine Porter, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
Co-founder and co-director Morgan Broome told Fox News Digital the group has trucked in nearly 40,000 bales of hay for the cattle.
—Bradford Betz, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2024
Like in every landfill, moisture in the trash that’s trucked in mixes with rainfall and collects into a polluted soup known as leachate.
—Chloe Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2024
The bright white sand on South Beach is Floridian but trucked in from mines to combat coastal erosion.
—Alice Newell-Hanson Stefan Ruiz, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
They were build in Duluth and trucked to Saint Paul in sections, where course builders welded them together in place to ensure a snug fit.
—Michelle Bruton, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
Space shuttle’s rockets will be trucked through SoCal roads Tuesday and Wednesday.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
But there could be unintended consequences as a result, such as higher costs or more greenhouse gas emissions from trucking it a longer distance.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
Noun
The wind lifted his truck and set it upside down on a concrete barrier in the freeway median.
—Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2024
As Israeli tanks and ground troops moved to surround the southern Gazan city of Khan Younis, civilian deaths increased during January and the number of aid trucks allowed to enter plummeted.
—Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
The process of our engineer Steve more or less tearing down his entire studio, putting it in a truck, and moving it that far away, and then taking it out of the truck, resetting it all up, plugging it back in, hundreds of cables and things—that process in itself would have eaten a week of our time.
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 5 Apr. 2024
For fans of the show, there was one telltale giveaway: Some of the clips show Squad 3 emblazoned on the truck, the number of the unit depicted in the series.
—USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
At a general store in New Jersey, near the epicenter of the earthquake, the sound was so loud that the staff thought a truck had crashed into the building.
—Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
Lightning best resale value in the electric truck category.
—Detroit Free Press, 5 Apr. 2024
As much as $100 million in jewels and valuables was taken from the truck.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
As if fossil fuels weren’t harming our public lands enough through heat-trapping carbon emissions, The Times’ Lila Seidman reports that America’s four most polluted national parks are all in California, with gas-guzzling cars and trucks largely to blame.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
Verb
For 40 years Olson trucked his 18,000 honeybee colonies between California and Washington, moving among farms and orchards where their job was to pollinate everything from almonds to tree fruits, blueberries, blackberries, cranberries, carrots, radishes, onions, canola and alfalfa.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
Typically they are trucked in to provide a stable source of power.
—Catherine Porter, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
Co-founder and co-director Morgan Broome told Fox News Digital the group has trucked in nearly 40,000 bales of hay for the cattle.
—Bradford Betz, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2024
Like in every landfill, moisture in the trash that’s trucked in mixes with rainfall and collects into a polluted soup known as leachate.
—Chloe Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2024
The bright white sand on South Beach is Floridian but trucked in from mines to combat coastal erosion.
—Alice Newell-Hanson Stefan Ruiz, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
They were build in Duluth and trucked to Saint Paul in sections, where course builders welded them together in place to ensure a snug fit.
—Michelle Bruton, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
Space shuttle’s rockets will be trucked through SoCal roads Tuesday and Wednesday.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
But there could be unintended consequences as a result, such as higher costs or more greenhouse gas emissions from trucking it a longer distance.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
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truck
1 of 3 noun1
2
: goods for barter or for small trade
3
: close association
have no truck with such people
4
: vegetables grown for market
5
a
: small articles of little value
b
: rubbish
truck
2 of 3 noun
: a wheeled vehicle for moving heavy articles
truck
3 of 3 verb
: to transport on or by truck
Etymology
Noun
from earlier truck (verb) "to exchange goods, swap," from Middle English trukken (same meaning), from early French troquer (same meaning)
Noun
from truck "a small wheel," from truckle "small wheel, pulley," from Middle English trokell "caster, wheel," from Latin trochlea "block of pulleys"
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