hand truck

noun

1. truck.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hand truck¹

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

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.

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

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He helped so many friends and colleagues move from one apartment or house to the next, always willing to do the heavy lifting, that he was nicknamed “the human hand truck.”

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Then the guy grabbed my hand truck and said, “Here, let me give you a hand.”

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He moved to Harlem with his mother and a sister when he was 10 and eventually got a job pushing a hand truck in the garment district.

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