Other forms: trucks
A truck is the big heavy vehicle that carries goods along roads. A delivery truck, a truck driver, the truck jackknifed.
Lorry is the British word and truck the American, though truck is now widely used in Britain too, especially for the articulated kind. Pickup truck is a small open-backed one. On the railway, a truck is a goods wagon. Note truck stop; monster truck; and have no truck with something, meaning to refuse to deal with it, which comes from a quite separate old word meaning barter.
1nountruckA large heavy vehicle that carries goods.
“A big truck full of vegetables was parked outside the market.”
synonyms: lorry
truck is a goods vehicle.
Also accepted in games: lorry
Latin trochus meant an iron hoop, from Greek trochos, a wheel. The vehicle is named after its wheels, and the barter sense in have no truck with is a different word from French troquer, to exchange.
Ancient Greek
τροχός
Latin
trochus — iron hoop, wheel
English, today
truck
From truckle. Perhaps a shortening of truckle, related to Latin trochus (“iron hoop, wheel”) from Ancient Greek τροχός.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA