Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context US Canada English) A vehicle for the collection and removal of waste.
WordNet
n. a truck for collecting domestic refuse; "in England a garbage truck is called a dustcart" [syn: dustcart]
Wikipedia
Garbage truck or dustcart refers to a truck specially designed to collect municipal solid waste and haul the collected waste to a solid waste treatment facility such as a landfill. Other common names for this type of truck include trash truck in the United States, and rubbish truck, bin wagon, dustbin lorry, bin lorry or bin van elsewhere. Technical names include waste collection vehicle and refuse collection vehicle. These trucks are a common sight in most urban areas.
Usage examples of "garbage truck".
I think it's unlikely the garbage truck side-swiping you caused the explosion.
The Mafiosi ran to the window and fired futile shots after the accelerating garbage truck.
A garbage truck's hvdraulic whine and the crash of an upturned dumpster came from outside.
Did the garbage truck come all the way down the drive to pick up the trash cans?
His mind swarmed with unbidden images of strange craft inhabited by alien creatures, of refuse dumped just outside reality, waiting to be gathered up by a garbage truck that was a thousand years behind schedule.
She drove away from the car dealership, passing a garbage truck that had pulled over to the curb, two men getting out.
As for the garbage truck, we'll park it out back in the construction lot.
So she just ran at the square trapdoor opening, her hair, tangled now with green leaves and twigs as well as the crud from her scramble under the garbage truck, streaming out behind her.
There he was standing in what they call an 'incoming garbage truck.
But by then she was busy entertaining a table of cable-TV executives, so she missed seeing Twilly Spree drive up to the neon-lit strip club in a full-sized county garbage truck.