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trucking
/ˈtɹʌkɪŋ/
noun 5
Collocations
5ADJ.
financial, over
VERB + TRUCKING
costs, taking
TRUCKING + NOUN
food, jobs, plentie
PREP.
from
ADV.
away, often
Definitions
noun
1
Trading, bartering.
This they were wont to use also for hatchets, but now by trucking they have plentie of the same forme of yron.
2
the conveyance of freight by trucks.
3
Lateral movement of the camera.
4
moving quickly
Truckin,' he says, means moving along with zest and enjoying it
I could've killed that kid. I mean, I was really truckin'. So I blow out my knee to save his life and I'm on the ground in a swastika, and the mother just grabs his hand and keeps walking.
5
walking
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
2010 Thomas Bruso, AC TRANSIT BUS FIGHT-- Interview w Tom (Epic Beard Man) doghousefm 1 minute 30 seconds I walked away, you saw me trucking. Trucking means walking.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — the activity of transporting goods by truck
- hauling
- truckage
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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This they were wont to use also for hatchets, but now by trucking they have plentie of the same forme of yron.
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Truckin,' he says, means moving along with zest and enjoying it
Wiktionary03
I could've killed that kid. I mean, I was really truckin'. So I blow out my knee to save his life and I'm on the ground in a swastika, and the mother just grabs his hand and keeps walking.
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Yanni's trucking route is from Algiers to Bejaia.
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There's a lot of fearmongering over autonomous vehicles taking away trucking jobs, but the technology is far from ready for mass implementation.
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City-grown food also avoids the environmental and financial costs of trucking food, often over thousands of kilometers, from the field to the dinner plate.
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