Wiktionary
alt. A tractor-trailer with eighteen wheels, normally with two steerable wheels on the first axle and four wheels on two fixed axles of the tractor and two fixed four-wheel axles on the rear of the trailer. n. A tractor-trailer with eighteen wheels, normally with two steerable wheels on the first axle and four wheels on two fixed axles of the tractor and two fixed four-wheel axles on the rear of the trailer.
Usage examples of "eighteen-wheeler".
Berard sucked in her breath as she saw the huge eighteen-wheeler come barreling along in the adjacent lane.
He aimed the Voxan at the eighteen-wheeler barreling toward him on the left, then let go of the handlebar.
Already perhaps a dozen or more of the motorcyclists from the brigand gang were walking toward him, some of the drivers of the eighteen-wheelers were climbing down from their cabs and walking toward him as well.
Some of the eighteen-wheelers were starting to move, inching forward, then backward, the very shape of the circle in which they'd parked prohibiting them from maneuvering.
Before long the Cadillac was pinned in traffic-construction trucks, eighteen-wheelers, Army convoys, ambulances, sightseers, National Guardsmen, and hundreds of queasy insurance adjusters, all heading into the hurricane zone.
There was a line of eighteen-wheelers extending for miles down the interstate due to the blizzard conditions, and the fluffy white stuff didn’t seem to have a mind to ease for a while.
Outside, the world was a blanket of white, piling against the large eighteen-wheelers parked here and there.
The last thing we need is suicide bombers coming over in eighteen-wheelers or freight trains.
Imagine: bumper-to-bumper from Key West to Jacksonville: U-Hauls, Winnebagos, Air streams, station wagons, moving vans, buses, eighteen-wheelers.