Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A motor truck.
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- noun UK A
motor vehicle fortransporting goods ; atruck . - noun obsolete A
large low horse -drawnwagon . - noun dated A small
cart orwagon , as used on thetramways inmines to carrycoal orrubbish . - noun dated A
barrow ortruck for shiftingbaggage , as at railway stations. - verb transitive To
soil ,dirty ,bespatter withmud or the like.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Turning Wheels organised two blockades at the Marianhill toll plaza on the N3 near Durban last month to highlight what it called lorry drivers 'exploitation and unfair working conditions.
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Perpignan is one of 60 French towns that have struck upon a cheaper and greener way to collect household waste -- ditching the dustbin lorry ...
French Towns Swap Garbage Trucks For Horse-Drawn Carts guardian.co.uk 2010
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Surely, I think, McKellan's Magneto would raise every car, van and lorry from the bridge, shatter it to a powder of steel, and fuse that steel into a new bridge, into something more magnificent in its slender, shining subtlety than that mere lumpen mass of man's construction, ripped from the earth and dumped in its new position.
On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010
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Perpignan is one of 60 French towns that have struck upon a cheaper and greener way to collect household waste -- ditching the dustbin lorry in favour of a horse and cart
French Towns Swap Garbage Trucks For Horse-Drawn Carts guardian.co.uk 2010
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Surely, I think, McKellan's Magneto would raise every car, van and lorry from the bridge, shatter it to a powder of steel, and fuse that steel into a new bridge, into something more magnificent in its slender, shining subtlety than that mere lumpen mass of man's construction, ripped from the earth and dumped in its new position.
Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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Perpignan is one of 60 French towns that have struck upon a cheaper and greener way to collect household waste -- ditching the dustbin lorry ...
French Towns Swap Garbage Trucks For Horse-Drawn Carts guardian.co.uk 2010
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Perpignan is one of 60 French towns that have struck upon a cheaper and greener way to collect household waste -- ditching the dustbin lorry in favour of a horse and cart
French Towns Swap Garbage Trucks For Horse-Drawn Carts The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Perpignan is one of 60 French towns that have struck upon a cheaper and greener way to collect household waste -- ditching the dustbin lorry in favour of a horse and cart
French Towns Swap Garbage Trucks For Horse-Drawn Carts The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Perpignan is one of 60 French towns that have struck upon a cheaper and greener way to collect household waste -- ditching the dustbin lorry in favour of a horse and cart
French Towns Swap Garbage Trucks For Horse-Drawn Carts guardian.co.uk 2010
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The lorry is said to have been on the wrong side of the road.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
seanahan commented on the word lorry
More commonly today used in British English to describe trucks larger than a pickup.
December 29, 2007
yarb commented on the word lorry
Both had been injured when a lorry shed
its load of Portaloo site-lavatories
impartially on a bus-queue.
- Peter Reading, Admissions, from Diplopic, 1983
June 30, 2008
bilby commented on the word lorry
Not used in Australia, but fun to say.
August 27, 2015