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English
Etymology
From team + -ster.
Pronunciation
Noun
teamster (plural teamsters)
- A person who drives a team of animals (such as horses or oxen).
1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 7, in Riders of the Purple Sage , New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:Dirty boys playing in the ditch, clerks, teamsters, riders, loungers on the comers, ranchers on dusty horses, little girls running errands, and women hurrying to the stores all looked up at her coming with glad eyes.
1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter 1, in Blood Meridian , →OCLC:He turned to the man who spoke. He wore long moustaches after the fashion of teamsters and he wore a widebrim hat with a low round crown.
- (US) A person who drives a cargo truck (see Teamster).
Derived terms
Translations
person who drives a cargo truck
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