truck

A large road vehicle used for carrying goods or pulling a heavy trailer.

• The truck is full of boxes.
• Two trucks delivered wood to the building site.
• Who parked that truck outside our house?

Similar words: lorry

Common phrases: delivery truck, truck driver, drive a truck

To carry goods somewhere in a large road vehicle.

• They truck food to the camp.
• The company trucked supplies across the border.
• Sand is trucked in from a nearby quarry.

How to use it: truck something to/from somewhere (They truck fresh fruit from the farms to the city.)

Similar words: transport, haul

Common phrases: truck something in, truck something out, truck something to somewhere

To drive a large goods vehicle, especially over long distances as a job.

• My uncle trucks for a living.
• She trucked through the night to reach Denver.
• He has been trucking for twenty years.

How to use it: truck across/through somewhere (He trucks across the country every week.)

Similar words: drive a truck

Common phrases: truck across something, truck for someone, truck all night

To move along quickly or keep going with energy despite difficulties.

• We were trucking along the road.
• She trucked past us with her heavy backpack.
• Despite the setbacks, the team kept on trucking.

Similar words: keep going, press on

Opposites: stop

Common phrases: keep on truck, truck along, truck down something