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dumptruck en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of dump truck.
After the quake, it was only natural that this would be the place where many of the dumptrucks conveying corpses from town brought their grisly cargo—and where now the government had chosen, atop the bleached-white pebbles of a mass grave, to erect its official memorial to the dead.
2016, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Island People: The Caribbean and the World, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 255:The buried train car necessitated blasting a hole in the rock to create a depression and the removal of thirty-two dumptrucks worth of boulders.
1999, Louisa Gradnitzer, Todd Pittson, X Marks the Spot: On Location with the X-Files, Vancouver, B.C.: Arsenal Pulp Press, →ISBN, page 80:The shells had mounted up for some time: there were several dumptrucks’ worth piled up down below the door.
1982, Ken Chowder, Delicate Geometry, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 125:
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