moving van

noun

1. a large truck or trailer used for transporting furnishings from one residence or office to another.

Word History and Origins

Origin of moving van¹

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900

Example Sentences

A hundred miles away, 27 people are buried in a moving van, sweating, crying, and struggling to breathe.

From Vox

Their prison looks to be a moving van, the sides and ceiling warped from the weight of the surrounding dirt.

From Vox

They go to Fred’s quarry and bury a moving van, cutting holes for vents and toilets.

From Vox

A successful book should have a mirror being unloaded from a moving van on page one.

From The Daily Beast

Our national symbol may be the bald eagle but it might as well be the moving van—or, previously, the covered wagon.

From The Daily Beast

Once, he was cooking in the back of a moving van and the lab exploded.

From The Daily Beast

Everything I owned except a suitcase, and the dog and cat, was on a moving van heading north.

From The Daily Beast

His eyes noted almost unconsciously the presence of a large moving van standing near the gateway to the street.

From Project Gutenberg

I was riding my brakes but the mass of that moving van was so great that my tires just wore flats on the pavement-side.

From Project Gutenberg

When Drew and his band rounded that corner there was no car in sight—only a huge, lumbering moving-van two blocks to the east.

From Project Gutenberg

Into the drive rumbled a big automobile, almost like a large moving van.

From Project Gutenberg

So I started to pile things on the overturned table, until it looked like a moving-van ready for a May-Day migration.

From Project Gutenberg