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hand truck

American  

noun

  1. truck.


Etymology

Origin of hand truck

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

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Some nights, she peeks outside her tent and sees the trucks unload the goods, and other times she can hear people hauling the produce onto the street by wheelbarrow or hand truck.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2025

Did I share that some have the ability to connect to an integral two-wheeled hand truck to transport them to a job site?

From Seattle Times • Jan. 29, 2024

It was White, you might remember, who expressed outrage in Brooklyn in April when McGregor took a hand truck and smashed the window of the bus carrying Nurmagomedov and others.

From Washington Times • Oct. 7, 2018

His desk was a folding table that he hauled around the campus on a hand truck.

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2018

And we were racked on the hand truck and wheeled into the building.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien