truck

Less common meanings

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   small cartnouncountable

   A small cart that you push or pull by hand to move heavy things.

   Like a shopping cart, but made for moving heavy boxes and bags.

   We used a hand truck to roll the heavy boxes down the hall.

   The librarian pushed a book truck full of returns between the shelves.

   UsageOften hand truck or book truck.

   Similarcart, trolley, dolly, barrow

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   skateboardnouncountable

   The part of a skateboard or roller skate that connects the wheels to the board or boot and allows turning.

   He tightened the bolts on his front truck before the contest.

   Loose trucks make it easier to turn the skateboard.

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   nounUScountableabbreviation

   Abbreviation of railroad truck or wheel truck. It is the wheeled frame under each end of a train car.

   Each truck under the train car has four wheels.

   The truck swivels so the train can go around curves.

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   farm producenounUSuncountablebefore a noun

   Vegetables and other fresh food grown to be sold.

   Her family grew truck crops like sweet corn and squash to sell in town.

   Every summer we buy tomatoes from the truck farm down the road.

   UsageMostly in truck farm and truck crops.

   Similarproduce

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   any contactnoununcountable

   Dealings, contact, or involvement with someone or something.

   We'll have no truck with bullies at this school.

   After the argument, the two families had little truck with each other.

   UsageMost often have no truck with: want nothing to do with someone or something.

   Similardealings, association, contact, business

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    verbslangUSintransitive

    To go, move along, or travel.

    We trucked across town to see the new movie.

    Just truck on over here when you're ready.

    UsageUsually with a direction: truck over to a place.

    Similarroll, cruise, head, travel, mosey

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    keep goingverbslangCanadaUSintransitive

    To keep going and not give up, even when things are hard.

    Even after losing his job, he kept trucking.

    Money is tight, but we truck along and make it work.

    UsageUsually keep trucking: keep going when things are hard.

    Similarpersevere, persist, continue

    Oppositequit

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    freight carnounUKcountable

    A train car used for carrying goods.

    Coal trucks rolled past the station all night.

    Workers loaded the last truck of the goods train.

    UsageOften called a goods truck. In North America it is a freight car.

    Similarwagon, car

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    nouncountable

    A flat platform on wheels, especially one used to move scenery on a stage.

    Stagehands rolled the scenery on and off using a truck.

    The stage crew rolled the painted castle wall offstage on a low truck.

    Similarwagon, platform

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    run over (football)verbslangtransitive

    In football, to run straight into a player who is trying to stop you and knock them down.

    Like a bowling ball knocking down a pin that stands in its way.

    The running back trucked the safety and scored.

    He tried to truck the linebacker instead of running around him.

    UsageSay a player trucked a tackler. In formal writing, say ran over.

    Similarflatten, bulldoze, steamroll, trample

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    camera moveverbintransitive

    To move a camera sideways, often to follow a moving subject.

    The camera trucks alongside the runners during the race scene.

    "Truck right when she crosses the room," the director said.

    UsageThe camera trucks alongside a moving person to follow them.

    Similartrack

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    barterverbtransitive or intransitive

    To trade things, especially by swapping one thing for another instead of paying money.

    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, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy.

    Similartraffic

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    verbslangtransitive or intransitive

    To fight or struggle with someone physically.

    Both deputies were big, made of dense flesh and tough experience. . . . I wouldn't have wanted to truck with either one of them.

    1993, Sue Grafton, "J" Is for Judgment

    Similarfight, tangle

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    pay in goodsnounhistoricaluncountable

    An old way of paying workers with goods, or with tokens that only worked at the boss's store.

    Miners hated truck because the company store charged double for everything.

    Under truck, her pay came as flour, cloth, and store credit instead of money.

    UsageSay workers were paid in truck.

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    relevancenoununcountable

    A real connection to the subject being talked about.

    Many people involved in classical music today, themselves gay, see no reason why their sexuality should have any truck in their music.

    1983, Kenneth Hale-Wehmann, “Coming Out on Record: A Triumph in Gay Music”

    Similarconnection, bearing, relevance, relation

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    verbintransitive

    To deal with or spend time with a person or group.

    My grandmother refused to truck with anyone who gossiped.

    Mom told us not to truck with the kids who skip school.

    UsageSay truck with someone, often in not truck with.

    Similarassociate, consort, deal, mix, mingle

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    nounobsoleteplural

    Small, simple things, often kept for sale or trade.

    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, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnHere, truck means small, simple things kept for sale.

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    messnoununcountable

    Dirt or mess, such as mud or scattered trash.

    “Nothing! Look at your hands. And look at your mouth. What is that truck?”

    1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    Similardirt, muck, grime, filth, gunk

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    noun

    A round piece of wood at the top of a ship's mast, with holes for the ropes that raise flags.
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    noun

    The round ball at the very top of a flagpole.
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    noun

    A small wheel or roller, such as the wheel under an old cannon.
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    verbdialectal

    To fail, run out, or slowly get smaller.
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    verbdialectal

    To give in or give up instead of standing firm.
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    verbdialectal

    To act dishonestly by cheating or tricking others.
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    verbdialectalScotlandUK

    To stamp on something or press it down flat with your feet.