truck stop
a gas station, usually at the side of a major highway, where truck drivers stop for fuel, and often including a restaurant, sleeping and showering rooms, a store selling basic items, etc.
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How to use truck stop in a sentence
It is not a foreign problem, she stresses, but one “in and around the interstates, truck stops and hair salons of our Midwestern states.”
Once they got to Oklahoma, the hippie crew pulled over for 17-year-old runaway Alice Joann Wallace at a truck stop.
He Robbed a Taco Joint With a Toy Water Gun for $264. He Got Life in Prison. | Kate Briquelet | May 31, 2021 | The Daily BeastAntelope is a true family business — along with his wife, his father, and his mother, Singh cooks all the food, operates the truck stop, and runs the attached convenience and liquor stores.
In 2007, Singh bought a truck stop after friends tipped him off to one that was up for auction across the country.
In Iowa, there’s a truck stop called the World’s Largest Truckstop.
Seconds later my friend picked me up in front of the truck stop, his face a sickly shade of white.
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British Dictionary definitions for truckstop
/ (ˈtrʌkˌstɒp) /
mainly US and Canadian a place that supplies fuel, oil, etc, for lorries and trucks, and often provides facilities such as a restaurant for drivers
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