firetruck
4
1.4
- noun
- /ˈfaɪərˌtrʌk/
- US
:
camión de bomberos
- The city budget included funds to purchase a new firetruck for the local fire department.
- red firetruck
- firetruck sirens
- an old firetruck
Examples
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Then, I was escorted outside where EMS and a firetruck were pulling in.
Blog text (23) -
Cars, vans, and even a firetruck choke the street; cops, reporters, EMS workers, and curious civilians swarm around the ineffective barricades.
Fiction book (1991) -
A firetruck went by a few blocks away, howling.
Fiction book (1996) -
Half a block from the school, she came upon the crowd and heard the clanging firetrucks.
Fiction book (1994) -
The firetrucks and the K-9 units arrive.
Fiction book (2002) -
Jim's eyes open with a start at the sound of a siren, but it turns into the horn of a firetruck in the distance.
Fiction book (1995) -
I saw no wreckage, just firetrucks and a woman standing on the side of the road, inconsolable and screaming.
Blog text (7) -
Most firetrucks already carried a surfactant, a soapy liquid that helps put fires out.
Academic text (2004) -
I had four firetrucks and two ambulances appear the night I wrecked on black ice on backcountry roads.
Blog text (19) -
The volunteer firemen bounced across the cattleguard in an old firetruck whose obsolete hand-crank starter still dangled from under the radiator.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
30
1.8
A big vehicle that carries firefighters and tools to put out fires
12
1.6
A large vehicle that carries firefighters and tools to fight fires
2
5.5
A fire engine with a strong pump that supplies water to fight fires
1
3.7
A fire engine with a long ladder that stretches to reach high places and rescue people
A fire engine with a long ladder that can extend to reach high places for fighting fires or rescuing people
How Equipped
- Specialized
1
3.7
- US
4
1.4
12
1.6
- Specialized
1
5.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Firetruck joins fire and truck, where truck means 'large vehicle'. So a firetruck is a vehicle that carries firefighters and tools for 'fighting fires'.