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  • noun Australia, New Zealand, informal A truck driver.

Etymologies

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From truck +‎ -ie.

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Examples

  • After studying fire science at a community college, he became a New Haven "truckie," the guy who puts up ladders and breaks holes in burning buildings.

    Daily News-Record 2009

  • After studying fire science at a community college, he became a New Haven "truckie," the guy who puts up ladders and breaks holes in burning buildings.

    Daily News-Record 2009

  • Prime Mover - David Ceaser's latest film is about a truckie and his new wife, played by Michael Dorman and Emily Barclay respectively.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Glenn Dunks 2009

  • Billie, I'll definitely let you know about truckie.

    ON THE BUBBLE WITH J.T. ELLISON 2007

  • Prime Mover - David Ceaser's latest film is about a truckie and his new wife, played by Michael Dorman and Emily Barclay respectively.

    This Week on Australian Screens Glenn Dunks 2009

  • Oh yes, it seems that the Waikato truckie, who wishes to remain anonymous, lavished gifts upon the chick, including breast augmentation !

    That's One Expensive Used Bikini RICHARD 2006

  • He would get in his little truckie and drive 72 miles down to the paper plant, pick up his bundles and deliver them to stores and street corners for the on-foot paper boys along the way.

    a story from my childhood 2004

  • He introduced himself as Tom, a truckie from Paraburdoo,

    The Picket Line 1985

  • Truckie's outback death preventable THE great mystery about the death of Perth truckie Anthony

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • Ten years after Mr Falconio's murder in the Northern Territory outback, truckie Phil Cook, 62, this week told British newspaper The Sun he met a man who told him he had camped 45m from the crime scene on the night of the killing.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

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