truck
verb/trʌk/
/trʌk/
(especially North American English)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they truck | /trʌk/ /trʌk/ |
| he / she / it trucks | /trʌks/ /trʌks/ |
| past simple trucked | /trʌkt/ /trʌkt/ |
| past participle trucked | /trʌkt/ /trʌkt/ |
| -ing form trucking | /ˈtrʌkɪŋ/ /ˈtrʌkɪŋ/ |
- truck something (+ adv./prep.) to take something somewhere by truck
- Water had to be trucked in to the town.
Word OriginMiddle English (denoting a solid wooden wheel): perhaps short for truckle in the sense ‘wheel, pulley’. The sense ‘wheeled vehicle’ dates from the late 18th cent.
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