truck

truck¹ W3S3 [trʌk] n

[Sense: 1-3; Date: 1700-1800; Origin: truck 'small wheel' (17-21 centuries), probably from Latin trochus 'circular iron band', from Greek trochos 'wheel']

[Sense: 4; Date: 1800-1900; Origin: truck 'exchange, barter, communication' (16-19 centuries), from truck 'to barter' (13-19 centuries), from Old French troquer]

1.) a large road vehicle used to carry goods

British Equivalent: lorry

▪ a truck driver

pick-up/fork-lift/delivery etc truck

(=large vehicles used for particular purposes)

▪ His car was taken away on the back of a breakdown truck.

2.) BrE a railway vehicle that is part of a train and carries goods

American Equivalent: car

▪ coal trucks

3.) a simple piece of equipment on wheels used to move heavy objects

4.) have/hold/want no truck with sb/sth

to refuse to be involved with someone or to accept an idea

truck ²

truck² v AmE

1.) [T] also truck in

to take something somewhere by truck

▪ They ordered sand to be trucked in from the desert.

2.) [I always + adverb/preposition] spoken

to go, move, or travel quickly

▪ We were trucking on down to Jack's place.

3.) get trucking

spoken to leave

4.) keep on trucking

spoken used to encourage someone to continue what they are doing, especially in the 1970s