/tɹʌk/, /tɹʊk/
OriginPerhaps a shortening of truckle, related to Latin trochus (“iron hoop, wheel”) from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós).
- countable, uncountableA small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
““Put that cannon up once, and I'll answer for it that no Injin faces it. 'Twill be as good as a dozen sentinels,” answered Joel. “As for mountin’, I thought of that before I said a syllable about the ”
- countable, uncountableThe ball on top of a flagpole.
- countable, uncountableOn 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.
“But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep. Is not the main-truck higher than the kelson is ”
- Australia, Canada, US, countable, uncountableA heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods; (in Malaysia/Singapore) a such vehicle with a closed or covered carriage.
“We rented a truck big enough to carry the whole load in one trip.”
“A line of fifty trucks from the Zenith Steel and Machinery Company was attacked by strikers-rushing out from the sidewalk, pulling drivers from the seats, smashing carburetors and commutators, while t”
“That's why driving truck became more than a job for many in the industry. Driving truck was a lifestyle.”
- UK, countable, uncountableA railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods.
- countable, uncountableAny 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.”
“From the doors of these rooms went men with loaded trucks, to the platform where freight cars were waiting to be filled; and one went out there and realized with a start that he had come at last to th”
- US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountableAbbreviation 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.
- countable, uncountableThe 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.
- countable, uncountableA platform with wheels or casters.
- countable, uncountableDirt or other messiness.
““Nothing! Look at your hands. And look at your mouth. What is that truck?””
- in-plural, obsolete, oftenSmall, 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.”
“It happened in this way, on a day when I was indulging in a particularly greenery-yallery fit of gloom. Norah rushed into my room. I think I was mooning over some old papers, or letters, or ribbons, o”
- historicalThe 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, attributive, oftenGarden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
“As the home house people (the industrious part of them at least) might want ground for their truck patches, they might, for this purpose, cultivate what would be cleared. But I would have the ground f”
“"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.”
“I obtained my first view of a lunar city. It was built around a crater, and the buildings were terraced back from the rim, the terraces being generally devoted to the raising of garden truck and the p”
- usuallySocial intercourse; dealings, relationships.
“"How can I decide?" said I. "You have not told me what you want of me. But I tell you now that if it is anything against the safety of the fort I will have no truck with it, so you can drive home your”
- usuallyRelevance, bearing.
“Many people involved in classical music today, themselves gay, see no reason why their sexuality should have any truck in their music.”
“For this reason, Washington is a wonderful and proven humbler of the Texan conceit: Washington isn't a state, and yet it is metaphorically bigger than Texas. It's where Texas learns that not everyone ”
- intransitiveTo drive a truck.
“My father has been trucking for 20 years.”
- transitiveTo convey by truck.
“Last week, Cletus trucked 100 pounds of lumber up to Dubuque.”
“Colson was to truck the 'plane to Alice Springs, where it would be trained to Adelaide for repairs.”
- US, intransitive, slangTo travel, to proceed.
“I want to tell you a story from 'way back: / Truck on down and gig me, jack / In eighteen hundred and sixty-five / A hep cat started some jive / He said, "Come on, gates, and jump with me / At the Jun”
“I brought them around again, hard, and some fluff hit me in the face, cool and wet. . .and I laughed and trucked on down, a mad. fiddler dancing to my own music, happy and alone in my private white wo”
“Instead, when relatives heard that the right ship had docked, they trucked over to Ellis Island and waited desperately by the Kissing Post.”
- Canada, US, intransitive, slangTo persist, to endure.
“Keep on trucking!”
“It has been five months since I left Mt. Diablo , and I'm still trucking along gaining slowly and I'm just a few pounds from my goal healthy weight. I'm the happiest I've been in my life because throu”
““What's ol' Harrison up to these days, Larry?” Grandpa asked. “Oh, he's still trucking along,” Uncle Larry replied.”
- intransitiveTo move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
- slang, transitiveTo 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.”
- slang, transitiveTo run over or through a tackler in American football.
- dialectal, intransitiveTo fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
- dialectal, intransitiveTo give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
- dialectal, intransitiveTo deceive; cheat; defraud.
- Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitiveTo tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
- transitiveTo 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.”
- intransitiveTo 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 [...]”
- intransitiveTo have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
Formstrucks(plural) · trucks(present, singular, third-person) · trucking(participle, present) · trucked(participle, past) · trucked(past) · trock(alternative)