Trucking
noun, verb
noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 the activity of transporting goods by truck wordnet
- 3 the conveyance of freight by trucks. US, countable, uncountable
- 4 Lateral movement of the camera. countable, uncountable
- 5 moving quickly countable, uncountable
"Truckin,' he says, means moving along with zest and enjoying it"
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- 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 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.
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