truckdriver

[truhk-drahy-ver]

noun

1. a person who drives a truck.

Word History and Origins

Origin of truckdriver¹

First recorded in 1890–95; truck ¹ + driver

Example Sentences

She swears “like a truckdriver,” she admits.

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“I didn’t expect it, it was not foreseen at all that they would lose to South Korea. Germany will go on. I am optimistic,” said truckdriver Michael Annamann, 44, from Magdeburg, adding at least there were plenty of jobs.

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During his 56 years on the lam, authorities said Freshwaters lived in several states and held down a variety of jobs, including some time as a truckdriver.

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“This county is so tore up, it will never be the same — ever,” said Jeff Dixson, 68, a wildlife photographer and former truckdriver who said he supported many of the goals of the occupiers in his midst, making him unpopular with many neighbors.

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So, during one frenetic week in May 2011, he shot “Truckdriver,” a tense 25-minute film about bullying at one of the vaunted rural boarding schools where millions of Cubans used to spend part of their high school education.

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