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weapons carrier

American  

noun

Military.
  1. a light truck for transporting weapons or munitions in the field.


Etymology

Origin of weapons carrier

First recorded in 1945–50

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His legislation would require a concealed weapons carrier to be at least 21, require disclosure of all prior arrests, convictions and restraining orders, and mandate in-person interviews, psychiatric evaluations and character references.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2022

We trundled around the northwestern portion of the island, looking for monk seals in a battered, Korean War-era weapons carrier, a kind of truck, with wooden planks for benches.

From New York Times May 8, 2013

An hour later, after dusk and fog had settled in over Barnau, a West German border guard on routine patrol found the weapons carrier parked a bare six feet from the border.

From Time Magazine Archive

Army weapons carrier one evening last week, bearing seven off-duty medics of the 186th Field Artillery Batallion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the camera swung again, to show a low-slung weapons carrier which had pulled up a few dozen meters back of the man with the microphone.

From The Best Made Plans by Dongen, H. R. van

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