The Collaborative International Dictionary
Technicals \Tech"nic*als\, n. pl. Those things which pertain to the practical part of an art, science, or profession; technical terms; technics.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of technical English) 2 Technical details. 3 (context finance English) The technical analysis data.
Wikipedia
Technicals may be:
- Technical (vehicle), an improvised fighting vehicle often used in civil conflict
- TECHNICALS, a clothing brand owned by Blacks Leisure Group
Usage examples of "technicals".
Chetniks in Serbia, technicals in Somalia, Tontons Macoutes in Haiti, or soldiers in Sierra Leone can tell you, in places where the Western Enlightenment has not penetrated and where there has always been mass poverty, people find liberation in violence.
While hunting a tyrant, twenty-four Rangers had been trapped, slaughtered, and dragged by their heels behind the armed trucks called Technicals.
In the premission briefing, they’d been shown the reconnaissance photos of the truck-mounted antiaircraft guns, called technicals, and were also warned that there was a real chance the enemy might have surface-to-air missiles.