Results for “truck”

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trucks
noun

The metal axle assemblies that hold the wheels and let you turn.

#skater#surf#hardware#equipment
Back up the truck
phrase

Buy a security in massive size because the price is too good to pass up.

#finance#wall-street#trading#slang
Gut Truck
noun

Same thing as a roach coach — the jobsite lunch wagon.

#construction#trades#food#jobsite
dump truck
noun

Compliment for a big, strong, well-developed backside.

#gym#fitness#anatomy#culture
loose trucks
noun

Trucks set to turn easily for deep carving.

#skater#surf#hardware#setup
tight trucks
noun

Trucks set stiff for stability but less turn.

#skater#surf#hardware#setup
Cattle Truck
noun

GI slang for the cramped troop transport that hauled men packed in like livestock.

#1940s#wartime#swing#vintage
Keep On Truckin
phrase

An encouragement to keep going, stay persistent, and ride out whatever comes.

#1970s#disco#funk#soul
troca
noun

Pickup truck, in Tex-Mex Spanglish.

#texas#spanglish#tex-mex#border
Chicken coop
noun

Truck weigh station — where the rigs get penned up and checked.

#trucker#cb-radio#weigh-station#dot
Good buddy
noun

Old-school CB term for a fellow trucker — but the meaning flipped.

#trucker#cb-radio#1970s#slur
Four wheeler
noun

Any non-truck passenger vehicle — a regular car.

#trucker#cb-radio#highway#driving
Bobtail
noun, verb

A semi-truck driving with no trailer attached — just the tractor unit on its own.

#trucker#cb-radio#semi#logistics
Float shifting
verb, noun

Changing gears in a heavy truck without using the clutch.

#trucker#cb-radio#driving-technique#mechanical
Chicken hauler
noun

A driver running a chromed-out show truck — often the kind that hauls live poultry.

#trucker#cb-radio#culture#show-truck
Chicken lights
noun

The extra decorative marker lights bolted all over a show truck.

#trucker#cb-radio#show-truck#customisation
Portable parking lot
noun

An auto-transporter — the truck that hauls a stack of cars.

#trucker#cb-radio#car-hauler#logistics
Cornbinder
noun

An International Harvester truck.

#trucker#cb-radio#international-harvester#vintage
Pete
noun

A Peterbilt truck — the chrome-laden status symbol of long-haul trucking.

#trucker#cb-radio#rig#peterbilt
Choke and puke
noun phrase

A truck-stop diner with food that earns the name.

#trucker#cb-radio#diner#truck-stop
Lot lizard
noun phrase

A prostitute working the truck-stop lots.

#trucker#cb-radio#truck-stop#sex-work
Front door
noun phrase

The lead truck in a convoy scouting for cops ahead.

#trucker#cb-radio#convoy#smokey
Back door
noun phrase

The rear truck in a convoy watching for cops coming up behind.

#trucker#cb-radio#convoy#smokey
Rocking chair
noun phrase

A truck riding safely tucked between the lead and tail of a convoy.

#trucker#cb-radio#convoy#highway
Cherry picker
noun

A truck-mounted bucket lift for working at height.

#construction#electrical#lineman#equipment
Honey Wagon
noun

The pump truck that comes to suck out the porta-potties.

#construction#trades#sanitation#film
Roach Coach
noun

The lunch truck that swings by the jobsite at break.

#construction#trades#food#military
buggy
noun

The chief's SUV — or the truck that hauls a wildland crew.

#firefighter#fire service#wildland#apparatus
bazodee
adjective

Dizzy, dazed, light-headed or love-struck.

#caribbean#patois#emotion#state
tootoolbay
adjective

Dazed, love-struck or in a confused stupor.

#caribbean#patois#emotion#love
bicycle kick
noun

An overhead volley struck while airborne, back to goal.

#sports#skill#goal#volley
knuckleball
noun

A shot struck with almost no spin so it swerves unpredictably.

#sports#shot#technique
deuce and a half
noun

A 2½-ton cargo truck.

#military#army#vehicles
VBIED
noun

Vehicle-Borne IED; a car or truck bomb.

#military#army#acronym#explosive
50-50
noun

A grind on both trucks along an edge.

#skater#surf#trick#grind
5-0
noun

A grind on the back truck only, nose in the air.

#skater#surf#trick#grind
nosegrind
noun

A grind on the front truck only, tail in the air.

#skater#surf#trick#grind
crooked grind
noun

An angled nosegrind with the truck offset; a.k.a. crooks or K-grind.

#skater#surf#trick#grind
smith grind
noun

Back-truck grind with the front truck dipped down and off the far side.

#skater#surf#trick#grind
feeble grind
noun

Back-truck grind with the front truck hanging over the near side.

#skater#surf#trick#grind