Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context chiefly North America English) A roadside service area, usually consisting of a restaurant and fueling station and sometimes a motel or hotel, where drivers of long-haul trucks can stop to refuel, eat, and rest.
WordNet
n. a roadside service station (and restaurant) that caters to truck drivers
Wikipedia
A truck stop, also known as a transport cafe in the United Kingdom and as a travel center by major chains in the United States, is a commercial facility which provides refuelling, rest ( parking), and often ready-made food and other services to motorists and truck drivers. Truck stops are usually located on or near a busy road.
Truck Stop may refer to:
- Truck stop, or transport cafe in the UK, a commercial facility predicated on providing fuel, parking, and often food and other services to motorists and truck drivers.
- Truck Stop, a 2009 album by Swedish band Lasse Stefanz
- Truck Stop Women, a 1974 film
- Truck Stop, a German country band
Truck stop is a previously best-selling German country band from Seevetal- Maschen, Harburg, south of Hamburg, that has been performing for over 40 years.
Truck Stop is a Lasse Stefanz studio album released on 3 June 2009. It was certified platinum in Sweden.
Usage examples of "truck stop".
You pay your dues, do your time behind the wheel, put in long hours on boring roads, your vertebrae compress and your stomach goes sour from too much strong coffee, and finally, just when you get a good-paying job with benefits and you're seeing the light at the end of the retirement tunnel, just when you can hear the distant siren song of a bass boat and a case of Miller calling to you like a willing truck stop waitress named Darlin', a monster comes along and flicks your truck and you are plum blowed up.
When she passed Rock Springs, she saw state troopers waving tractor-trailer rigs back onto I-80 from a crowded truck stop.
Following a quick stopover in Panama City at an all-night truck stop with a Hertz franchise, I pulled into Seaside a few minutes after sunrise in a newly rented, dark-blue Taurus.
Now, I ain't worked in any places where people wear neckties on the job, but even Red over at the truck stop keeps a calendar, and he's on the phone more than he's not.
Twenty minutes later, LuAnn walked into the Number One Truck Stop several hours before her shift.
He spun on his stool and looked out the windows of the truck stop to the gas pumps, where a black stretch Lincoln was just pulling away.