semitrailer
Americannoun
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semitrailers
plural
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Also called semi. a detachable trailer for hauling freight, with wheels at the rear end, the forward end being supported by the rear of a truck tractor when attached.
noun
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It’s over 8 feet tall, nearly 11 feet wide and travels by 53-foot semitrailer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Dash-camera and body-camera video released by the Ohio State Highway Patrol shows troopers with their lights and sirens on following a semitrailer before the truck stops.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2023
The lab has a machine to simulate the bumpiness of the back of a semitrailer, as well as one that mimics slamming into the walls of those trailers if the driver pumps the brakes.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 11, 2023
Minely Beatriz Ramirez-Valdez was part of a group nabbed inside a Peterbilt semitrailer at a Border Patrol highway checkpoint en route from southern Texas to Houston on Thursday.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
They weren’t in the fifth-wheel or the semitrailer.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
A few years ago, Bud Bosch noticed semitrailers occasionally rumbling along the two-lane rural road by his property.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2023
Most pass unseen, crossing the country crammed into semitrailers.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
“Send your semitrailers home,” Ms. Freeland told protesters.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2022
The strong winds also whipped up dust that reduced visibility to zero west of Wakeeney, Kansas, the state Department of Transportation said, and caused at least four semitrailers to blow over.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 16, 2021
When Silva was a boy, chasing semitrailers up the hills of Veracruz, his father once admonished him for aspiring to be a professional runner.
From Washington Post
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