Definitions
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- noun Australia A
truck andtrailer combination consisting of aprime mover coupled to two trailers.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He listens to his players: On the night of a gala premiere, a viola player jumped from the stage to ask whether a B-double sharp note was a mistake.
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"B-double sharp doesn't make any sense," said Mr. Adams.
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A B-double truck veered on the wrong side of the Hume Highway, near Menangle, about 11.25am AEDT yesterday and crushed a red sedan against a guardrail on the Menangle Bridge.
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Three trucks and car in two smashes on Bruce Highway at Mt Larcom within half an hour THE Bruce Highway has been brought to a standstill as emergency services rescue injured motorists caught in a three-car crash involving a B-double tanker carrying recycled oil that has burst into flames.
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A spokesman for the Queensland Ambulance Service said the B-double overturned about 8.30pm.
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The accident also ruptured the B-double's fuel tank, spewing the fuel into the Nepean River.
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The B-double then careened off the Pacific Highway, and slammed through the side of a house, before coming to rest in the front bedroom of a granny flat, killing sleeping Max Macgregor, and narrowly missing his 14-year-old brother.
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"We're still unsure of the quantity of recycled oil on board the B-double tanker or whether it was even fully loaded," he said.
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The B-double then careened off the Pacific Highway, and slammed through the side of a house, before coming to rest in the front bedroom of a granny flat, killing sleeping Max Macgregor, and narrowly missing his 14-year-old brother.
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A truck driver died less than an hour later, when his B-double veered across the Hume Highway near Melbourne and crashed into a tree.
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