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English
Noun
truck driver (plural truck drivers)
- (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A person employed to drive a truck, especially a tractor-trailer or other large industrial truck.
- Synonyms: lorry driver (UK, Ireland, India, Pakistan), trucker (US, Canada), truckie (Australia, NZ)
- Hyponym: owner-operator (usually hyponymous)
- (skiing) A freestyle skiing aerialist move involving grabbing the front end of one's skis on a jump in a pike position, similar to holding the large steering wheel of a big truck.
- Hypernyms: pike, double-grab
- Coordinate terms: mute grab, Japan grab
- (cycling) A freestyle BMX move involving turning the bicycle handlebar 360-degrees, akin to spinning the steering wheel of a big truck to turn.
- (military slang, World War I– World War II) A bomber pilot.[1]
Translations
person employed to drive a truck
- Afrikaans: vragmotorbestuurder, trokdrywer
- Asturian: camioneru m
- Catalan: camioner m, camionera f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 卡車司機／卡车司机 (kǎchē sījī)
- Danish: lastbilchauffør (da) c
- Dutch: vrachtwagenchauffeur (nl) m
- Estonian: veoautojuht
- Finnish: kuorma-auton kuljettaja; rekka-auton kuljettaja, (colloquial) rekkakuski (fi)
- French: chauffeur de camion m, routier (fr) m, camionneur (fr) m
- Galician: camioneiro (gl) m, camioneira f
- German: Lastwagenfahrer (de) m, Lkw-Fahrer (de) m
- Greek: νταλικέρης (el) m (ntalikéris), νταλικέρισσα f (ntalikérissa), φορτηγατζής (el) m (fortigatzís), φορτηγατζού f (fortigatzoú)
- Ido: kamionisto (io)
- Indonesian: sopir truk
- Italian: camionista (it)
- Japanese: トラック運転手 (torakku untenshu)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: lastebilsjåfør m
- Nynorsk: lastebilsjåfør m
- Polish: kierowca ciężarówki m
- Portuguese: camionista (pt) m or f, caminhoneiro (pt) m (Brazil)
- Romanian: camionagiu (ro) m, camionar (ro) m (rare)
- Russian: води́тель грузовика́ m (vodítelʹ gruzoviká), дальнобо́йщик (ru) m (dalʹnobójščik) (long-distance)
- Serbo-Croatian: kamiòndžija (sh)
- Spanish: camionero m, camionera f
- Swedish: lastbilschaufför (sv) c, långtradarchaufför (sv) c, tradarchaffis c
- Turkish: kamyoncu (tr)
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References
- ^ Lighter, Jonathan (1972) “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, in American Speech, volume 47, number 1/2, page 113