flatbed
Americannoun
-
Also called flatbed trailer,. Also called flatbed truck. a truck or trailer having an open body in the form of a platform without sides or stakes.
Etymology
Origin of flatbed
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
We pulled up to a harvest wagon, a large flatbed.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
A flatbed truck carrying a tank rolled through the highlands, making its way through fields of blossoming pink almond trees and yellow wildflowers.
From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026
He instead took the job of following the flatbed that carried Spivey and his truck.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025
It was like a fire bucket brigade, with workers passing the melons down the line to be placed into large boxes on a flatbed, a process the owner called “pitching.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2025
It’s built onto a flatbed trailer with a frame constructed up the back, and it definitely looks like country music.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
