truck
To drive a truckTo drive a truck.
» Yesterday a truck hit this wall.
Gestern hat ein Lastwagen diese Mauer gerammt.
Вчера в эту стену врезался грузовик.
Вчора у цю стіну врізалася вантажівка.
Meaning
14 senses(intransitive)To drive a truck.
My father has been trucking for 20 years.
(mit dem Lastwagen) fahren, (im LKW) transportieren
convey (goods etc.) by truck
(transitive)To convey by truck.
Last week, Cletus trucked 100 pounds of lumber up to Dubuque.
(US, intransitive, slang)To travel, to proceed.
(Canada, US, intransitive, slang)To persist, to endure.
Keep on trucking!
(intransitive)To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
(slang, transitive)To fight or otherwise physically engage with.
(slang, transitive)To run over or through a tackler in American football.
(dialectal, intransitive)To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
(dialectal, intransitive)To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
(dialectal, intransitive)To deceive; cheat; defraud.
(Scotland, UK, dialectal, intransitive, transitive)To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
(dialectal, intransitive, transitive)To trade, exchange; barter.
Examples
1758 sentencesYesterday a truck hit this wall.
Вчора у цю стіну врізалася вантажівка.
ruВчера в эту стену врезался грузовик.
deGestern hat ein Lastwagen diese Mauer gerammt.
Tom didn't recognize the truck driver.
Том не впізнав водія вантажівки.
ruТом не узнал водителя грузовика.
Tom is in the other truck.
Том в іншій вантажівці.
ruТом в другом грузовике.
I used to drive a truck.
Я колись був водієм вантажівки.
ruЯ раньше водил грузовик.
You're a truck driver, aren't you?
Ти ж водій вантажівки?
Translations
4 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From Middle English truken, troken, trukien, from Old English trucian (“to fail, run shoFrom Middle English truken, troken, trukien, from Old English trucian (“to fail, run short, deceive, disappoint”), from Proto-West Germanic *trokōn (“to fail, miss, lack”), from Proto-Indo-European *derew-, *derwu- (“to tear, wrap, reap”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to flay, split”). Cognate with Middle Low German troggelen (“to cheat, deceive, swindle”), Dutch troggelen (“to extort”), German dialectal truggeln (“to flatter, fawn”).
From dialectal truck, truk, trokk, probably of North Germanic origin, compare Norwegian dialectal trokka, trakka (“to stamp, trample, go to and fro”), Danish trykke (“to press, press down, crush, squeeze”), Swedish trycka. More at thrutch.
From Middle English trukien, from unrecorded Anglo-Norman and Old French words, from Latin trocāre, from Frankish *trokan. Related to Etymology 2.
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Forms
trucks, trucking, trucked, truckedPhrasal verbs
2 phrasal verbsWord family
6 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
Collocations
12 patterns- drive a truck
- by a truck
- truck driver
- a truck driver
- load the truck
- pickup truck
- a tow truck
- tow truck
- a pickup truck
- unload the truck
- a truck hit
- is a truck