food truck

American  

[food truhk] / ˈfud ˈtrʌk /

noun

1. a truck or van from which food is sold, as to people on the street.

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Etymology

Origin of food truck

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

Don’t tell the good folks at the dog park or the customers at your food truck.

From MarketWatch

The Lambing Shed Farm Shop and Kitchen confirmed the incident involved its food truck, with four members of its team injured.

From BBC

Lunch was served out of a food truck.

From The Wall Street Journal

And Houlihan had ordered a beef burrito, not pork, meaning that the food truck would have needed to serve the wrong order without her realizing it.

From The Wall Street Journal

The plan was simple: Pop up for roughly a year, then spring for a food truck and slowly grow the operation into a bricks-and-mortar.

From Los Angeles Times