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• road-train
  road-train

  noun

  a convoy of motor vehicles.
• road train
  road train

  noun

  a line of linked trailers pulled by a truck, used for transporting stock, etc

road-train

American  

[rohd-treyn] / ˈroʊdˌtreɪn /

noun

1. a convoy of motor vehicles.

2. a fleet of motor vehicles traveling together in line.

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road train British  

noun

1. a line of linked trailers pulled by a truck, used for transporting stock, etc

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Etymology

Origin of road-train

First recorded in 1955–60

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When Jonah Lomu was thundering about South Africa in the 1995 Rugby World Cup, strafing defenders like a road-train through wheat, there’d never been anything like him.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 18, 2015

She pointed down at a giant road-train passing below, the only light coming from it a dim red flicker from underneath, the navigation laser reading the bar codes painted onto the road.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

The road train was carrying carrying around 30 passengers at the time of the incident.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

The road train travelled from the mine in the state's remote Kimberley region and arrived at a storage facility in the suburbs of Perth on Jan. 16.

From Reuters ● Jan. 31, 2023

Until the 20th century, Overkalix was cut off from the rest of the world, unreachable by road, train or even, in wintertime, boat, because the frozen Baltic Sea could not be crossed.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2012

The so-called road train has been developed by Volvo.

From BBC ● May 29, 2012

The projected road train is flexible and capable of coming to the crops.

From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Jefferies, Richard