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Semi or pickup
Answer for the clue "Semi or pickup ", 5 letters:
truck
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Word definitions for truck in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a delivery truck ( also delivery van British English ) ▪ Just then a delivery truck stopped outside. a taxi/bus/truck etc driver ▪ Car drivers face a new daily charge to enter the capital. a truck/vehicle convoy ▪ ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"vehicle," 1610s, originally "small wheel" (especially one on which the carriages of a ship's guns were mounted), probably from Latin trochus "iron hoop," from Greek trokhos "wheel," from trekhein "to run" (see truckle (n.)). Sense extended to "cart for ...
Usage examples of truck.
The three of us went first to check on the pool, and found it gratifying abrim with repulsive brown water, wide and deep enough to have submerged our truck.
Paul sat with the pamphlet on the platform, he had been gazing absently at the stalled truck from which the men had emerged.
Lead truck following Aby, rolling down to the fatal turn, where the woods came near the road.
I walked over to her bed and collapsed on it, and the next thing I knew she was shaking my shoulder and telling me that it was six in the morning and it was time to take the truck back to the Acme Fertilizer Company and make another pick-up.
He adjusted his aerator more comfortably and climbed into the waiting truck.
A tremendous squeal of tires was followed by a deadening crash as the Alfa hit the truck full on.
The Shadow too had seen the empty truck and knew that the side issue of the stolen alumite had become a portion of the major quest, the finding of The Harlequin!
In 1976, a tank truck went off an elevated freeway, exploded and released 19 tons of anhydrous ammonia, killing seven people.
They went there and found a truck loaded with crates from the Argyle collection.
Rue de la Grande-Truanderie, Ascan turned into a passage so narrow that a truck would not have squeezed through.
A cheaper method, that of cramming victims into trucks and killing them with engine exhaust, was judged unsatisfactory because not enough victims could be asphyxiated at one time.
You show up in a beaner truck loaded with bullet holes and you might just disappear.
I wonder if David Westin would be so Swiss if someone had asked what he thought about what those vicious white bigots in Texas did to James Byrd, dragging him to his death from the back of a pickup truck?
There had been no sign of the Bimbo Bread truck, which had compelled them, for some strange reason, to leap into traffic, risking their very lives.
I was merely repeating the stories going around that a man very much resembling the Vice-President of the United States was seen in the city driving a Bimbo Bread truck.