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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Pertaining to a garden patch or truck garden.

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Noun:

  • A garden cart, a two-wheeled wheelbarrow.
  • Any motor vehicle designed for carrying cargo, including delivery vans, pickups, and other motorized vehicles (including passenger autos) fitted with a bed designed to carry goods.
  • A pantechnicon.
  • A pivoting frame, one attached to the bottom of the bed of a railway car at each end, that rests on the axle and which swivels to allow the axle (at each end of which is a solid wheel) to turn with curves in the track. The axle on many types of railway car is not attached to the truck and relies on gravity to remain within the truck's brackets (on the truck's base) that hold the axle in place.
  • A small wagon or cart, of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or obsolete pulled by an animal, as with those in hotels for moving luggage, or in libraries for transporting books.
  • A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun-carriage.
  • British A flatbed railway car.
  • Dirt or other messiness
  • nautical On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a ''truck'' on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck".
  • obsolete ''(often used in plural sense)'' Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter.
  • (theatre) A platform with wheels or casters.
  • The ball on top of a flagpole.
  • The part of a skateboard that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.
  • US A semi-tractor ("semi") trailer; British a lorry.
  • US Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
  • with negative Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.

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Verb:

  • ''(film production)'' To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
  • intransitive To drive a truck.
  • intransitive To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
  • intransitive To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
  • slang|1960s To persist, to endure.
  • slang|1960s To travel or live contentedly.
  • transitive slang To run over or through a tackler in American football.
  • transitive To convey by truck.
  • transitive To trade, exchange; barter.

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