Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who drives a truck.
- n. One that is engaged in trucking goods.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who trucks; one who traffics by exchange of goods.
- n. A truck-farmer; a market-gardener, or one who sells garden-stuff, especially at wholesale.
Wiktionary
- n. pejorative One who has done something offensive; a deceitful, dishonest, or disreputable person; a deceiver; a cheat.
- n. pejorative, Scotland A rogue; rascal; miscreant; a ne'er-do-well.
- adj. pejorative, Scotland Dishonest; resulting from or inspired by dishonesty.
- n. One who drives a truck.
- n. archaic or dialectal One who trucks or trafficks, by trade of goods; a trafficker.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who trucks; a trafficker.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who drives a truck as an occupation
Etymologies
- From truck (“to barter, trade”) + -er. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Two separate guys (guy in trucker hat who I think is the liquid metal Terminator/Davey Scantino) and the other is Bathroom-Using Man who wore no cap.”
“It's not even scream scream scream, just blah blah blah, the trucker is God on meth and where the fuck are the police.”
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“However, Bella’s DID mandate CB time to bring in trucker business.”
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“My last image of the trucker was my headlights sweeping over him as the wolf lunged at him.”
“The trucker is a local man who didn't know Upshaw was a fugitive, Ordway said.”
“The whole lot lizard thing is just so nasty … Skanky animal planet indeed … Still I think the idea of trucker leks is sort of amusing … dbadass Says:”
“One different extended thing about being a trucker is the camaraderie that you experience with your companion truckers.”
“Early hipsters 'adoption of these and other suburban signifiers, such as trucker caps and BMX bikes, as they sauntered around urban areas is significant.”
“Reviewing America's "trucker" pop-culture I.Q. "Big Rig" (2007): Documentarians travel 21,000 miles through 45 states in search of what the life of a long-haul driver is all about.”
“At one point, law enforcement sources said, Thomas was a long-haul trucker, which would have had him traveling up and down Interstate 95.”
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