truck stop
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2.7
- noun
- /trʌk stɑp/
- US
:
parada de camiones
- After a long drive, we stopped at a truck stop to rest and have a meal.
We've lived on truck stop food for Hey.
- We've lived on truck stop food for Hey.
- It was like a road, truck stop, bar kind of place.
- Today is nuts, cinnamon, almonds that I got from some random truck stop.
- And then it becomes just endless miles of white lines and yellow lines and truck stops and the days just blur together.
- Maybe I'm wrong in this, but there's freeway driving, there's like truck stop and then there's more urban Y type of area.
- And we get to the truck stops and as soon as the guy opens the door, smack me in the face with this Colombian weed smell and burlap.
- There were reports at the time about that disastrous truck stop and and the deaths.
- There are reports at the time about that disastrous truck stop and and the deaths.
- She was hotter than the blacktop broke down at a truck stop.
- I don't have any experience driving a truck or, you know, having sex at a truck stop like they usually do.
- There's a couple of places in Indiana that's way up north, way up north, that's there's a truck stop that's really bad about it.
Examples
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Is there a truck stop nearby with a shower where I can get cleaned up?
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The green '66 T-Bird pulls into a modern truck stop and parks.
Fiction book (1991) -
Now we own the largest American style truck stop in all of East Africa.
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We are at the truck stop at the state line!
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Maybe we're not so different from the people in the truck stop, I thought.
Fiction book (1995) -
We took the extra cash to the truck stop diner in town.
Fiction book (1998) -
Now there's a truck stop just up the way.
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The truck stop on Highway 163.
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Frustrated, Annie looks up ahead and sees: a truck stop diner.
Fiction book (1998) -
We found a big, brightly lit truck stop that featured everything from T-bones to a Chinese buffet.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
24
1.8
A place beside a road where people stop to rest, use toilets, or buy food
A roadside place like a cafe where drivers stop to rest and eat
How Equipped
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a roadside service station for truck drivers' is directly derivable from combining 'truck' (large vehicle carrying cargo) with 'stop' (a place where a vehicle pauses): it denotes a place where trucks stop. This compound follows a common noun+noun/location pattern that is cross-linguistically frequent, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Truck stop The name truck stop comes from the simple idea of a place where a truck would stop on a long trip to get fuel, food, or a short rest. That's why 'truck stop' now means a roadside service station that mainly serves truck drivers.