trucker
69
3.4
- noun
- /ˈtrʌkər/
- US
:
camionero
- Not many cops are on this road; that's why the truckers use it.
- workers and truckers
So you know the podcast is going well when a female trucker cancels on it.
- So you know the podcast is going well when a female trucker cancels on it.
- God bless the truckers who are freeing the frozen North, right.
- Unless, of course, you live in Canada and you're a trucker.
- So it needs to be affordable to companies to retrain the truckers.
- And my father was one of the union organizers there when Minneapolis was the center of the the truckers union, the strikes.
- Before I ask you about autonomous trucks, that's just pause for your experience as a trucker.
- Now, some trucker moms here tonight.
- Because look at what Justin Trudeau did to the truckers.
- There was one single shooting in the entire trucker convoy, and it was the police shooting Alexa.
- She is female trucker and that Interstate bad girl Ginger.
- And I finally get back to the truck and I get in the truck and I feel the back of my head and I'm like this, this little trucker got me bleeding.
Examples
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With either system, a trucker pays an hourly rate for the services.
Academic text (2006) -
My father is a long-distance trucker and is away for weeks at a time.
Fiction book (1997) -
Oh, by the way, I was on the Trucker channel on SiriusXM this past weekend.
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Have we got any truckers in the crowd here?
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A couple of truckers that stopped in town.
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While Jeff is running these suspicions through his mind, a trucker approaches the counter to place an order.
Fiction book (1997) -
Cecil, her husband, was a long-haul trucker who did what he could when he had the time.
Fiction book (1996) -
God bless the truckers who are freeing the frozen north.
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You know, a lot of those truckers, the set of jobs they've had in their life were defining to them as human beings.
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My father is a long-distance trucker and is away for weeks at a time.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A person who controls a car or bus
67
1.2
A person who moves goods long distances in a large truck
10
4.1
A person or company that moves goods by truck on roads
9
6.6
A person who drives a truck for a living, often a member of a drivers union
5
1.4
A person who brings packages or food to people's homes
1
9.1
A person who drives a cart pulled by horses to carry goods
1
2.7
A person who brings packages to homes or businesses
1
9.4
A person who drives a truck for a living, usually in Australia or the UK
1
9.9
A person who drives a horse cart to move goods
A person who drives a truck for work
A person who sells or delivers things from a van
A person who leads mules to carry goods
A person who leads a group of camels and people across deserts to trade goods
How Experienced
153
4.1
- US
69
3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Trucker comes from the common word truck, the big vehicle that carries goods, plus the ending -er which means 'a person who does something'. So a trucker is literally 'a person who drives a truck' and often moves goods long distances.