Definitions
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- noun As much as a
truck can hold.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now I see how, in your mind at least, the destruction of which a truckful of fertilizer and kerosene is capable ican be equated with that of a military-grade semi-automatic firearm and thus both items presumably should be equally free from “prohibition”.
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Writer-director Djo Munga has put together a tough, sturdy thriller, centred around a smalltime hustler called Riva Patsha Bay, who shows up in the fuel-starved big city with a truckful of petrol he's liberated from his Angolan gangster employers.
Viva Riva! – review 2011
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Something that is more awesome than a truckful of Slim Jims.
Archive 2009-01-04 Tyler 2009
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Something that is more awesome than a truckful of Slim Jims.
Oh yeah! Tyler 2009
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Writer-director Djo Munga has put together a tough, sturdy thriller, centred around a smalltime hustler called Riva Patsha Bay, who shows up in the fuel-starved big city with a truckful of petrol he's liberated from his Angolan gangster employers.
Viva Riva! – review 2011
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Tomorrow we're sending another truckful, and then Bobby and I will go out into Port-au-Prince tomorrow with a pickup truck, and we're going to gather up people that we see that are on the roadsides and market places that haven't been brought into the clinic, and we're going to bring them right here to our clinic in Fond Parisien.
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But they know we've got guns, and somebody might do something stupid if there was just a truckful of them.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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The ground was littered with torn-up paper by the truckful.
The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010
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As I watched him unload a truckful of someone else's garbage - books, shelves, speakers, purses, cardboard, paper, stuffed animals, etc. - and try to sort what could be reused or recycled, he explained that we don't really need all that we think we do.
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A few seconds later she mentioned that she couldn't understand how God could let Timothy McVeigh drive up to the Alfred Murrah Federal Building with a truckful of explosives and blow the place up.
Howie Klein: Is the Republican Jihad Making the Party More Popular and Electable? 2009
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