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truckie en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Etymology

From truck + -ie.

Meanings

1. (Australia, New-Zealand, slang) A truck driver.
   • 2005, “Marcus”, quoted in Rose McCrohan, Chapter 3: I Don′t Care If I Live or Die, Keith D. Gilbert (editor), Sexuality, Sport and the Culture of Risk, Volume 6, page 45, I met up with a truckie and stayed on the road with him for most of the two months. I learnt how to drive the truck, even though I didn't have a truck or even a car license. I got to know other truckies and they used to ask for me on the CB radio.
   • On the day of the funeral truckies on their way to the container wharf slow down as they pass the Railway Hotel and sound their earth-shattering horns. 2007, Ron Davidson, Fremantle Impressions, Fremantle Press, page 282:
   • Look for the epitaph to a local female truckie outside the roadhouse. 2002, Rob Van Driesum, Outback Australia: Kakadu, Uluru and Kangaroos, Lonely Planet, page 452:
2. (slang) A firefighter who works from a fire truck.

Forms

Synonyms

trucker (truck driver)