truck

Universal Words noun, verb noun 1 [C] (especially AmE) = LORRY: a truck driver 2 [C] (BrE) (AmE car) an open railway vehicle for carrying goods or animals: a cattle truck 3 [C] a vehicle that is open at the back, used for carrying goods, soldiers, animals, etc: a farm / an army truck 4 [C] a vehicle for carrying things, that is pulled or pushed by hand seealsoFORK-LIFTTRUCK, PICKUPTRUCK, SALTTRUCK IDIOMS have / want no truck with sb/sth (BrE) to refuse to deal with sb; to refuse to accept or consider sth: We in this party will have no truck with illegal organizations. verb [VN] (especially AmE) to take sth somewhere by truck: Water had to be trucked in to the town. trucking noun [U]: trucking companies