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- noun As much as a
lorry can hold; atruckload .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The police believe they have tracked the source of the £2.5 million donation to a malaysian businessman and are waiting a "lorryload" of documents arriving from Spain to confirm.
Jailbird 2006
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William shouldered a lorryload of frustrations that caused him to party too hard and drive too fast.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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It is the kind of production that basically involves gathering up a lorryload of thesps at a loose end, dumping them in a tax-efficient sandy location, giving them a load of helmets to play with and a crash course in High Roman Speak, recording whatever results and scoring any emotional moments with sub-Enya or possibly Enya – it's so hard to tell music.
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If you feed in a lorryload of thighs and innuendo at the start of a decade, does it excrete cupcakes and baby voices at the end?
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He was playing with more zest and zip than a lorryload of punk lemons, Djokovic's body appeared to be failing him, the momentum was all his …and now's he's 3-0 down in the fourth.
Novak Djokovic v Rafael Nadal - as it happened! | John Ashdown 2011
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William shouldered a lorryload of frustrations that caused him to party too hard and drive too fast.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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Batman: Arkham Asylum was critically acclaimed, won a clutch of awards and sold by the lorryload, making it inevitable that we'd be seeing more of the Dark Knight.
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Gretchen Lieberum, a singer-songwriter from LA, has stood on the peripheries of the big-time over the last decade and watched as her similarly drowsy contemporaries like Norah Jones shifted units by the lorryload.
A Brief Book Review by hecklerspray – Angels And Insects 2007
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For all the boasting and bragging that went on during the recent Kanye West/ 50 Cent album sales face-off – the debates, the promises to retire, the lorryload of ridiculous excuses – it didn't really come to much, did it?
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Interestingly, this followed a case reported in the September 1991 National Geographic of a game dealer transporting a lorryload of foxes from Ohio to
Archive 2004-10-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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