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  • noun Plural form of truckload.

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Examples

  • Spent all morning and a bit of the midday splitting wood, 2 frickin 'truckloads of it, and damn, my back and shoulders are sore.

    Workin' Out troysmale 2006

  • Recall the truckloads of overpriced gas imported from Kuwait to Iraq, the $100 laundry bags, $45 cases of soda, the deliberate torching of $85,000 trucks in need of repair, multiple cases of bribery in Iraq and Nigeria, the use of a Cayman Islands subsidiary to do business in Iran (in violation of U.S. policy), and so forth.

    Charlie Cray: Progressive Caucus Members: Crack Down on Corporate Crooks and Contracting Cronyism 2008

  • You obviously do not recall the truckloads of bullshit about the Viet Nam Farrago and how well things were going there until they were not.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2008

  • To make the house look as spacious as possible, the family also hauled away "truckloads" of possessions that had piled up in their closets and big sub-basement over 14 years.

    Home sellers cope with houses in limbo Sandra Fleishman 2011

  • YouTube founders knew their site was carrying "truckloads" of pirated material.

    Google's Blind Side 2010

  • The company's founders and controlling owners put pirated material up themselves, knew that "truckloads" of pirated material was being uploaded to their site, and advised against paying attention to the red flags of rampant infringement because, as one founder cautioned another, if they did that they'd lose 80% of their profitable traffic.

    Google Wins Round One Against Viacom 2010

  • De Kock testified last week that South African security police in the early 1990s had sent "truckloads" of weapons to the IFP - mainly to Powell - for use in its civil war in KwaZulu-Natal province against the ANC.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Citing Grokster (2005), Viacom argued that YouTube operated with a specific and "unlawful objective of profiting from (to use their phrase)" truckloads "of infringing videos."

    The IPKat - IP news, views and mews Annsley Merelle Ward 2010

  • By their own admission, the site contained "truckloads" of infringing content and founder Steve Chen explained that YouTube needed to "steal" videos because those videos make "our traffic soar."

    Pocket-lint Stuart Miles 2010

  • "By their own admission, the site contained 'truckloads' of infringing content and founder Steve Chen explained that YouTube needed to 'steal' videos because those videos make 'our traffic soar '," Viacom said.

    Top Tech News 2010

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