truck

1. (intransitive) To drive a truck.Examples: "My father has been trucking for 20 years."intransitive

2. (transitive) To convey by truck.Examples: "Last week, Cletus trucked 100 pounds of lumber up to Dubuque."; "Colson was to truck the 'plane to Alice Springs, where it would be trained to Adelaide for repairs."transitive

3. (intransitive, US, slang) To travel, to proceed.Examples: "I want to tell you a story from 'way back: / Truck on down and gig me, jack / In eighteen hundred and sixty-five / A hep cat started some jive / He said, "Come on, gates, and jump with me / At the Juneteenth Jamboree.""; "I brought them around again, hard, and some fluff hit me in the face, cool and wet. . .and I laughed and trucked on down, a mad. fiddler dancing to my own music, happy and alone in my private white world."; "Instead, when relatives heard that the right ship had docked, they trucked over to Ellis Island and waited desperately by the Kissing Post."USintransitiveslang

4. (intransitive, US, Canada, slang) To persist, to endure.Examples: "Keep on trucking!"; "It has been five months since I left Mt. Diablo , and I'm still trucking along gaining slowly and I'm just a few pounds from my goal healthy weight. I'm the happiest I've been in my life because through my experiences with anorexia I[…]"; "“What's ol' Harrison up to these days, Larry?” Grandpa asked. “Oh, he's still trucking along,” Uncle Larry replied."CanadaUSintransitiveslang

5. (intransitive, film production) To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.intransitive

6. (transitive, slang) To fight or otherwise physically engage with.Examples: "Both deputies were big, made of dense flesh and tough experience. . . . I wouldn't have wanted to truck with either one of them."slangtransitive

1. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.dialectalintransitive

2. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.dialectalintransitive

3. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To deceive; cheat; defraud.dialectalintransitive

1. (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).ScotlandUKdialectaltransitive

1. (transitive) To trade, exchange; barter.Examples: "We will begin by supposing the international trade to be in form, what it always is in reality, an actual trucking of one commodity against another."transitive

2. (intransitive) To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.Examples: "But while this businesse was in hand, Arrived one Captaine Argall, and Master Thomas Sedan, sent by Master Cornelius to truck with the Collony [...]"intransitive

3. (intransitive) To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.intransitive

1. (obsolete, often in the plural) Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter.Examples: "There was sheds made out of poles and roofed over with branches, where they had lemonade and gingerbread to sell, and piles of watermelons and green corn and such-like truck."; "It happened in this way, on a day when I was indulging in a particularly greenery-yallery fit of gloom. Norah rushed into my room. I think I was mooning over some old papers, or letters, or ribbons, or some such truck in the charming, knife-turning way that women have when they are blue."in-pluralobsoleteoften

2. (historical) The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts].historical

3. (US, often attributive) Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).Examples: "As the home house people (the industrious part of them at least) might want ground for their truck patches, they might, for this purpose, cultivate what would be cleared. But I would have the ground from the cross fence by the Spring, quite round by the Wharf, first grubbed, before the (above mentioned) is attempted."; ""Wid dat, Brer Rabbit 'low dat Mr. Man done been had 'im hired fer ter take keer er his truck patch, an' keep out de minks, de mush-rats an' de weasels."; "I obtained my first view of a lunar city. It was built around a crater, and the buildings were terraced back from the rim, the terraces being generally devoted to the raising of garden truck and the principal fruit-bearing trees and shrubs."USattributiveoften

4. (usually with negative) Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.Examples: ""How can I decide?" said I. "You have not told me what you want of me. But I tell you now that if it is anything against the safety of the fort I will have no truck with it, so you can drive home your knife and welcome.""usually

5. (usually with negative) Relevance, bearing.Examples: "Many people involved in classical music today, themselves gay, see no reason why their sexuality should have any truck in their music."; "For this reason, Washington is a wonderful and proven humbler of the Texan conceit: Washington isn't a state, and yet it is metaphorically bigger than Texas. It's where Texas learns that not everyone is in love with Texas. (Where yer from orig'nally has no truck here.)"usually