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tipper truck

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noun

  1. Also called: tip truck.  a truck or lorry the rear platform of which can be raised at the front end to enable the load to be discharged by gravity

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He is now using five-tonne concrete blocks and security fencing to close entrances to fields and stop the larger tipper truck lorries dumping waste on his land.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2024

There were 42,000 larger illegal tips - so big that waste criminals would have needed a tipper truck or larger.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2024

A motorway is closed after a tipper truck collided with an overhead gantry.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2023

Two men have been found guilty over a tipper truck crash in Bath that killed four people, including a 4-year-old girl.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2016

Three men have denied killing four people including a four-year-old girl in a tipper truck crash.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2016

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