Trucking

noun, verb

noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Trading, bartering. archaic, countable, uncountable

    "This they were wont to use also for hatchets, but now by trucking they have plentie of the same forme of yron."

  2. 2
    the activity of transporting goods by truck wordnet
  3. 3
    the conveyance of freight by trucks. US, countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    Lateral movement of the camera. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    moving quickly countable, uncountable

    "Truckin,' he says, means moving along with zest and enjoying it"

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  1. 6
    walking countable, uncountable

    "Most backpackers don't realize that on every hike, usually without thinking about it, they walk on their stomach - with Vibram-soled boots. The way Napoleon said an army marches on its tum-tum. The food we drop into our stomach is what keeps us truckin'. Body fuel. It supplies calories to keep our legs moving"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of truck form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

More examples

"Yanni's trucking route is from Algiers to Bejaia."

Etymology

From truck + -ing.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.