Definition of Trucker

1. Noun. Someone who drives a truck as an occupation.

Exact synonyms: Teamster, Truck Driver
Generic synonyms: Driver
Derivative terms: Truck

Definition of Trucker

1. n. One who trucks; a trafficker.

Definition of Trucker

1. Noun. (pejorative UK dialectal) One who has done something offensive; a deceitful, dishonest, or disreputable person; a deceiver; a cheat. ¹

2. Noun. (pejorative UK dialectal Scotland) A rogue; rascal; miscreant; a ne'er-do-well. ¹

3. Adjective. (pejorative UK dialectal Scotland) Dishonest; resulting from or inspired by dishonesty. ¹

4. Noun. One who drives a truck. ¹

5. Noun. (archaic or dialectal) One who trucks or trafficks, by trade of goods; a trafficker. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Trucker

1. a truck driver [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trucker

truck driver
truck farm
truck farming
truck garden
truck gardens
truck in
truck out
truck stop
truck traffic
truckable
truckage
truckages
truckbed
truckbeds
trucked
trucker (current term)
trucker's hitch
trucker's hitches
truckers
truckful
truckfuls
truckie
truckies
trucking
trucking company
trucking industry
trucking rig
trucking shot
truckings
truckish

Literary usage of Trucker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. How to Make Insurance Companies Pay Your Claims by William M. Shernoff (1990)
"Getting a Piece of the Rock: How a trucker Won $1 Million Case Study: Pistorius v. ... For almost 20 years Ray was a long- and short-haul trucker. ..."

2. Black Americans in Defense of Our Nation: Female Participation & Involvement by DIANE Publishing Company (1990)
"... THE BLACK AMERICAN trucker OF WORLD WAR II Of the more than one million black Americans in uniform during World War n, most of them were in the Service ..."

3. Descriptions of Occupations by United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Employment Service (1918)
"Qualifications: He should have been a trucker or warehouseman. Schooling: Common school. ... He is usually promoted from trucker caller or warehouseman. ..."

4. Bulletin by United States (1918)
"CLOTH trucker (WEAVE ROOM). Duties.—The cloth trucker works with the cloth checker. After the checker tags the cloth the trucker follows and places the ..."

5. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1901)
"Then comes the out door trucker. Some of them combine the three divisions, ... The out door trucker being in the majority a short description of his ..."

6. How to Make the Railways Pay for the War; Or, The Transport Problem Solved by Roy Horniman (1916)
"The function of the tray is to carry goods from one part of the Clearing House to another, and the function of the trucker is to carry the tray. ..."

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