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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pick-up truck
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A pick-up truck and two other cars have been parked against the windows.
▪ A pick-up truck, that's what.
▪ As we drive by, a tiny pick-up truck approaches with two more.
▪ Four died when gunmen opened fire on a pick-up truck loaded with people near Port Shepstone in southern Natal.
▪ Read in studio Two children and two adults were injured when a school minibus collided with a pick-up truck and a car.
▪ The pick-up truck they used to drive to the coast was found abandoned and bloodstained nearby.
▪ They stood Donald in the back of Tommy's pick-up truck, then they climbed into the cab.

Usage examples of "pick-up truck".

She handed me a satchel of clothes and we loaded these and several boxes of foodstuff into the pick-up truck.

The only way to find out is to get in your pick-up truck and drive west on I-80.

Without any fuss he had wedged the pick-up truck into a dense pack of traffic.

He went back to his car, got in, backed up so fast he almost hit the pick-up truck passing behind him (there was a brief blare of horns and the passenger in the truck shot Emory W.

He had yea paperwork on his desk, and sitting there, rolling a pencil back and forth and thinking about that old geezer out someplace in his pick-up truck, that old geezer with white hair buzzed flat in a crewcut and a mechanical arm on account of he'd lost the real one at a place called Pusan in an undeclared war which had happened when most of the current crop of Viet Nam vets were still shitting yellow in their didies .

He looked forward again and saw that in roughly five seconds he was going to crash into the rear end of a pick-up truck that had stopped squarely in the middle of the intersection while the Uncle Ike type behind the wheel craned his neck to read all the signs and make sure he hadn't taken a wrong turn and somehow ended up in Miami Beach.

I bit my lips as I focused the glasses on a man delving into the engine of Matthew's pick-up truck.

The three men were now sitting in the back of the pick-up truck in front.

Evan opened the door of Cabin 23, grateful to see that she had driven the gardener's pick-up truck.

So I made the half-mile walk to the Infantry Training Brigade and retrieved my pick-up truck, then headed out to Whispering Pines to change into civvies.