Sekirov Dictionary

truck

/tɹʌk/

noun 15
verb 14
forms 3
phrases 7

noun15

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(US, Australia) a large heavy road vehicle that an engine drives on its wheels, made to carry goods
- We rented a truck big enough to carry the whole load in one trip.
(UK) A railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods.
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Any smaller wagon or 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.
- Goods were therefore conveyed about the town almost exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs. — 1849
A platform with wheels or casters.
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.
(US) 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.
Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.
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[before a noun] (US) Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
- "Wid dat, Brer Rabbit 'low dat Mr. Man done been had 'im hired fer ter take keer er his truck patch, an' keep out de minks, de mush-rats an' de weasels. — 1903
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Relevance, bearing.
- Many people involved in classical music today, themselves gay, see no reason why their sexuality should have any truck in their music. — 1983
The ball on top of a flagpole.
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".
(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].
A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
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Dirt or other messiness.
- “Nothing! Look at your hands. And look at your mouth. What is that truck?” — 1876
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[in the plural] (no longer used) Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter.
- There was sheds made out of poles and roofed over with branches, where they had lemonade and gingerbread to sell, and piles of watermelons and green corn and such-like truck. — 1884

verb14

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To convey by truck.
- Last week, Cletus trucked 100 pounds of lumber up to Dubuque.
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To drive a truck.
- My father has been trucking for 20 years.
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(US, slang) To persist, to endure.
- Keep on trucking!
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To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
- But while this businesse was in hand, Arrived one Captaine Argall, and Master Thomas Sedan, sent by Master Cornelius to truck with the Collony [...] — 1624
To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
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(US, slang) To travel, to proceed.
- Instead, when relatives heard that the right ship had docked, they trucked over to Ellis Island and waited desperately by the Kissing Post. — 2009
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To trade, exchange; barter.
- We will begin by supposing the international trade to be in form, what it always is in reality, an actual trucking of one commodity against another. — 1848
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(slang) To fight or otherwise physically engage with.
- Both deputies were big, made of dense flesh and tough experience. . . . I wouldn't have wanted to truck with either one of them. — 1993
To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
(slang) To run over or through a tackler in American football.
(dialect, UK) To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
(dialect) To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
(dialect) To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
(dialect) To deceive; cheat; defraud.

forms

trucked · trucking · trucks

Phrases with truck

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