Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A combination of a tractor and a semitrailer; a tractor-trailer rig.
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- noun A
tractor-trailer with eighteen wheels, normally with two steerable wheels on the firstaxle and four wheels on two fixed axles of the tractor and two fixed four-wheel axles on the rear of the trailer.
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Examples
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I was thinking about how much fun that had been, and feeling more and more thirsty, when a long tractor-trailer—the kind they call an eighteen-wheeler but don’t ask me to count them—appeared on the road, raising a long cloud of dust.
To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010
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I was thinking about how much fun that had been, and feeling more and more thirsty, when a long tractor-trailer—the kind they call an eighteen-wheeler but don’t ask me to count them—appeared on the road, raising a long cloud of dust.
To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010
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I was thinking about how much fun that had been, and feeling more and more thirsty, when a long tractor-trailer—the kind they call an eighteen-wheeler but don’t ask me to count them—appeared on the road, raising a long cloud of dust.
To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010
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There I was in full pumping mode, windows down, music on, pump pumping, hair blowing in the wind, when I heard the screech of an eighteen-wheeler beeping and riding alongside me.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011
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I looked up just in time to see the headlights of an oncoming eighteen-wheeler and heard the sound of urgency in its horn.
Show Stoppah Thomas Slater 2011
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The result is a classic 'what would you do?' suspense tale, as the genuinely guilty young men try to survive retribution from an unseen driver (voiced with genuine sadness by Ted Levine) of an eighteen-wheeler.
Scott Mendelson: Just in Time for Halloween: 10 of the Scariest Horror Films of the Last 20 Years. Scott Mendelson 2010
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The result is a classic 'what would you do?' suspense tale, as the genuinely guilty young men try to survive retribution from an unseen driver (voiced with genuine sadness by Ted Levine) of an eighteen-wheeler.
Scott Mendelson: Just in Time for Halloween: 10 of the Scariest Horror Films of the Last 20 Years. Scott Mendelson 2010
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I looked up just in time to see the headlights of an oncoming eighteen-wheeler and heard the sound of urgency in its horn.
Show Stoppah Thomas Slater 2011
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The result is a classic 'what would you do?' suspense tale, as the genuinely guilty young men try to survive retribution from an unseen driver (voiced with genuine sadness by Ted Levine) of an eighteen-wheeler.
Scott Mendelson: Just in Time for Halloween: 10 of the Scariest Horror Films of the Last 20 Years. Scott Mendelson 2010
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Meanwhile, back home, Elners nervous, high-strung niece Norma faints and winds up in bed with a cold rag on her head; Elners neighbor Verbena rushes immediately to the Bible; her truck driver friend, Luther Griggs, runs his eighteen-wheeler into a ditchand the entire town is thrown for a loop and left wondering, What is life all about, anyway?
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg: Book summary 2010
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