truckman
Americannoun
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truckmen
plural
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a truckdriver.
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a person who is in the business of trucking goods, produce, etc.
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Etymology
Origin of truckman
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But it amused newspaper readers to see that a truckman could admit it.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Cuban broker by the name of Jorge de Zaldo was just about to receive the trunk when Elmer & Rudolph swooped, arrested broker and truckman, opened the trunk.
From Time Magazine Archive
On a hunch, he asked for the truckman who had delivered them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Henry Herbermann did not remain a truckman for long.
From Time Magazine Archive
A truckman had arrived with their luggage from the hotel.
From Frank Merriwell's Cruise by Standish, Burt L.
For plain people, for taxi-drivers, truckmen, "no-collar" workers the case still had its "ifs" and "buts," regardless of the verdict and the Press's self-righteous applause.
From Time Magazine Archive
These contracts give him the power to force any food dealer out of business by merely withdrawing his truckmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Do we have to go into the bread lines?" wailed truckmen and taximen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Trying to break up a racketeer's trucking union, the best that Allison can do is to ask honest truckmen not to join.
From Time Magazine Archive
But now he was turning to the truckmen.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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