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
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