Wiktionary
n. (context British English) A truck and trailer, i.e., a combination involving a tractor unit and semi-trailer (''US'' semi-trailer truck).
WordNet
n. a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together [syn: trailer truck, tractor trailer, trucking rig, rig, semi]
Usage examples of "articulated lorry".
Slashing, venting its fury on an inanimate object, battering the vehicle until it resembled one that had been in a head-on collision with an articulated lorry.
An articulated lorry, up to speed after a crawl to the top of the rise, saw headlights ahead of it where no headlights should be.
Her scream of terror was drowned by the clanking of an approaching articulated lorry.
A van, it was impossible to recognise the make, was flattened beneath the trailer of an articulated lorry.
There had been a pile-up on the island, a car and a van meeting head-on, an articulated lorry ploughing the wreckage up on to the concrete, flattening it, a body in the road.
Or perhaps it was the fact that Koenig, driving one day along the North Circular behind a large, articulated lorry, was surprised by his masters observation that if he dropped a gear he should now have little difficulty in overtaking despite the heavy traffic.