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motor truck

American  
Or motortruck

noun

  1. truck.


Etymology

Origin of motor truck

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

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Her family had started and run the post office in the tiny community of Isom and her grandmother’s father had the first motor truck in town.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2022

Even the women of the office forces were given a place, riding in a big motor truck with the inscription, “some of Uncle Sam’s Best Girls.”

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2020

A rolling kitchen and a motor truck filled with supplies followed them, and there was an ambulance with well-trained male nurses to look after sore and swollen feet.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last month the motor truck in which 739-lb.

From Time Magazine Archive

As I looked out at the garden I heard a motor truck starting on the road.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway