Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The quantity that a truck can hold.

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  • noun A full truck or lorry
  • noun A large number

Etymologies

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truck + load

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Examples

  • Or, in some cases, until the entire supply/case/truckload is missing.

    What's your food Kryptonite? Tyler 2009

  • "Now we have what can only be referred to as truckload of money in the bank," valuation of Twitter in light of the latest rounds of funding

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Well, Jeff, we still believe that the truckload is a business that we can grow in the future.

    unknown title 2011

  • However, it was originally written for a small orchestra with what can conservatively be called a truckload of strings, the more the better, as the composer suggested.

    marconews.com Stories hkheithaus@naplesnews.com (HARRIET HOWARD HEITHAUS 2010

  • Mr Westrom, from Illinois, has been collecting army trucks for 12 years but he said it was time to part ways with the vehicles - sparking the idea of a "truckload" sale.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Farmers have to import farm workers by the 'truckload' because YOU people wont DO IT!

    CTV News RSS Feed 2009

  • (Saturday, Apr. 11) with a "truckload" of shopworns, scratch-&-dent, factory seconds etc.

    Mandolin Cafe News 2009

  • For longer than theater owners liked, nobody bought popcorn even though, Vlahakis said, a patron would have had to eat a "truckload" of popcorn to do real damage.

    unknown title 2009

  • They would curse good friends secupak segantang (a "truckload" of nasty words) when the meet friends who they have not met for months, years, maybe - wondering where this "lahabau" have been all these years.

    Lim Kit Siang 2009

  • They would curse good friends secupak segantang (a "truckload" of nasty words) when the meet friends who they have not met for months, years, maybe - wondering where this "lahabau" have been all these years.

    Planet Malaysia 2009

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