garbage truck
Britishnoun
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He’s never heard of a doctor’s son running behind a garbage truck: “it’s a family business, passed on from father to son and from brother to cousin.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
A garbage truck came and emptied the contents and drove off.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026
Harris also mocked a recent stunt by her election opponent Trump, in which he appeared to struggle to open the door to a garbage truck.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2024
Food and Drug Administration arrived at the sprawling Intas Pharmaceuticals plant south of Ahmedabad, India, and found hundreds of trash bags full of shredded documents tossed into a garbage truck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
There are no cars, but there’s a man on the corner up ahead tearing through trash bags, furiously, as if there’s a garbage truck approaching to steal them all away.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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