truck stop

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noun

a gas station, usually at the side of a major highway, where truck drivers stop for fuel, and often including a restaurant, sleeping and showering rooms, a store selling basic items, etc.

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Origin of truck stop

First recorded in 1960–65

Words nearby truck stop

truckle bed, truckline, truckload, truckman, truck racing, truck stop, truck system, truck trailer, truculence, truculent, Trudeau

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How to use truck stop in a sentence

It is not a foreign problem, she stresses, but one “in and around the interstates, truck stops and hair salons of our Midwestern states.”
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Once they got to Oklahoma, the hippie crew pulled over for 17-year-old runaway Alice Joann Wallace at a truck stop.
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Antelope is a true family business — along with his wife, his father, and his mother, Singh cooks all the food, operates the truck stop, and runs the attached convenience and liquor stores.
The American Dream in the Back of a Sunoco|Trisha Gopal|May 26, 2021|Eater
In 2007, Singh bought a truck stop after friends tipped him off to one that was up for auction across the country.
The American Dream in the Back of a Sunoco|Trisha Gopal|May 26, 2021|Eater

In Iowa, there’s a truck stop called the World’s Largest Truckstop.
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But I think Steve Austin has to team up with a Japanese holdout to stop a nuclear bomb from going off or something.
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Instead, the man and woman in the truck wanted to know where the crash site was and whether would I show them.
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That ground hold was to stop you flying through weather that could kill you and everyone else aboard.
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Thankfully there were no casualties—the driver managed to stop the train immediately.
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The men were accused of reneging on pledges to stop working for the Iraqi government.
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"But I can't stop to argue about it now;" and, saying this, he turned into a side path, and disappeared in the wood.
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl
At twelve, or fifteen, or sixteen, or twenty it was decided that they should stop learning.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
He had seen the act committed, he felt sure but had made no effort whatever to stop the thief.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
The Kangaroo can hop and hop and hop; Somehow he never seems to want to stop.
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Yet when I stop gazing the next impulse is to move on; for if I have time to rest anywhere, why not at home?
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley

British Dictionary definitions for truck stop

truckstop

/ (ˈtrʌkˌstɒp) /

noun

mainly US and Canadian a place that supplies fuel, oil, etc, for lorries and trucks, and often provides facilities such as a restaurant for drivers

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