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truckman

American  
[truhk-muhn] / ˈtrʌk mən /

noun

  • truckmen
    plural
  1. a truckdriver.

  2. a person who is in the business of trucking goods, produce, etc.


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Etymology

Origin of truckman

An Americanism dating back to 1780–90; truck 1 + -man

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Henry Herbermann did not remain a truckman for long.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Lewis, daughter of a Canadian truckman, now makes nearly a million dollars a year as Elizabeth Arden, cosmetics.

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

Grofe's family in-tended him for business so at 14 he ran away, became an elevator operator, then a truckman, a milkman, a heaver in an iron foundry, a pressman in a bookbindery.

From Time Magazine Archive

A local truckman who knew Mr. Thompson well moved them for nothing.

From Randy of the River The Adventures of a Young Deckhand by Horatio Alger

For these startling gains all credit goes to Art Tilt, who has a seventh sense for what truckmen will buy, has manufactured motor vehicles longer than anyone else except Henry Ford.

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

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

When truckmen still yowled, this permission also was suspended.

From Time Magazine Archive

I reached, trying to select the whitest, as the blue-shirted truckmen climbed through the loading door.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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