Definitions

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  • initialism heavy goods vehicle (a UK lorry - truck - weighing more than 3.5 tons)
  • initialism rare hepatitis G virus

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Examples

  • Mr Ikram said: "You know as a HGV driver that you have a lethal weapon at your hands and a custodial sentence is justified."

    Newbury News Today | News 2008

  • Chief Inspector Roscoe Walford said: "We are dealing with a very serious collision and the road is likely to be shut for a considerable period as it will take time to recover the HGV which is on its side.

    Kos RSS Feed 2010

  • Chief Inspector Roscoe Walford said: "We are dealing with a very serious collision and the road is likely to be shut for a considerable period as it will take time to recover the HGV which is on its side.

    Kos RSS Feed 2010

  • Chief Inspector Roscoe Walford said: "We are dealing with a very serious collision and the road is likely to be shut for a considerable period as it will take time to recover the HGV which is on its side.

    Kos RSS Feed 2010

  • Chief Inspector Roscoe Walford said: "We are dealing with a very serious collision and the road is likely to be shut for a considerable period as it will take time to recover the HGV which is on its side.

    Kos RSS Feed 2010

  • The bad weather claimed a life on Tuesday night when an HGV driver was killed in a collision involving two cars and three lorries on the M5 in Gloucestershire, police said.

    UK faces days of battering winds and blizzards 2011

  • Her son Mark, 42, an HGV driver, reckoned simply that "none of that stuff bothers me, and nor should it bother anyone".

    Middle England takes the unmarried unbeliever Ed Miliband in its stride Jon Henley 2010

  • Notable recent blunders include a Welsh soft drinks lorry driver who followed satnav instructions down a narrow alley in the village Bruton, Somerset, wedging his 13-tonne HGV between a house and an estate agents.

    Satnav summit aims to stop motorists driving up blind alleys 2012

  • As we followed Ella through a lesson with her instructor, we learned she would need "five days of hard, intensive training to get her HGV licence".

    TV review: MotherTruckers; Bullets, Boots and Bandages; Inside Men 2012

  • The PSU is needed to keep order while the family load the contents of their home into an HGV.

    Cucumber Sandwich. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

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