monster truck
A large truck designed specifically to perform in monster truck shows, typically based…A large truck designed specifically to perform in monster truck shows, typically based on a lifted pickup truck with oversized wheels and modified suspension.
» I'm going to a monster truck rally.
Meaning
1 sensesA large truck designed specifically to perform in monster truck shows, typically based on a lifted pickup truck with oversized wheels and modified suspension.
Monstertruck
монстр-тра́кmonstr-trák
Examples
2 sentencesI'm going to a monster truck rally.
Run over any obstacle with this monster truck!
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 1
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Origin
Literally, monster (“very large”) + truck (“motor vehicle”). Reportedly coined by Bob GeorLiterally, monster (“very large”) + truck (“motor vehicle”). Reportedly coined by Bob George, an owner of a motorsports promotion company, in the early 1980s, when referring to a popularly oversized truck named Bigfoot. Through semantic generalization, it came to refer to any of these oversized trucks.
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Forms
plural: monster trucks| Singular | monster truck |
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