truck
IPA: trˈʌk
noun
- A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
- The ball on top of a flagpole.
- (nautical) On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck".
- (countable, uncountable, US, Australia) A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods.
- (road transport, Singapore, Malaysia) A lorry with a closed or covered carriage.
- (UK, rail transport) A railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods
- Any smaller wagon/cart or vehicle of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, used to move and sometimes lift goods, like those in hotels for moving luggage or in libraries for moving books.
- The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.
- (theater) A platform with wheels or casters.
- Dirt or other messiness.
- (obsolete, often in the plural) Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter.
- (historical) The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts].
- (US, often attributive) Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
- (usually with negative) Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.
- (US, rail transport) Abbreviation of railroad truck or wheel truck; a pivoting frame, one attached to the bottom of the bed of a railway car at each end, that rests on the axle and which swivels to allow the axle (at each end of which is a solid wheel) to turn with curves in the track.
verb
- (intransitive) To drive a truck.
- (transitive) To convey by truck.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To travel, to proceed.
- (intransitive, US, Canada, slang) To persist, to endure.
- (intransitive, film production) To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
- (transitive, slang) To fight or otherwise physically engage with.
- (transitive, slang) To run over or through a tackler in American football.
- (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
- (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
- (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To deceive; cheat; defraud.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
- (transitive) To trade, exchange; barter.
- (intransitive) To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
- (intransitive) To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
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Examples of "truck" in Sentences
- A fish under the seat of the truck is a personal favorite.
- Breaking a bone several miles from the truck is a very real possibility.
- The idea that you could stop them driving it in in a truck is a fantasy.
- And since the truck is a noun phrase, it gets modified by an adjective, not an adverb.
- Yes pickup truck is code for "I help friends move into new houses more than most people do".
- On the side of the truck is a picture of a young boy, shirtless, with smooth, unblemished skin, flexing his slim biceps.
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