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garbage truck

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Motor vehicles
ˈgarbage ˌtruck noun [countable]  American EnglishTTCDHC a large vehicle which goes from house to house to collect the contents of garbage cans 垃圾车 SYN British English dust cart
Examples from the Corpus
garbage truckThe threat is as if a garbage truck had overturned and dumped wilted intellectual lettuce on bystanders.Who rides in the back of a garbage truck, picks up the trash off State Street.At Twentieth and Blake he saw a man swabbing a garbage truck.Sunlight coming through a nearby window or the sound of an early morning garbage truck can disturb a light sleeper.So he bought this old Dodge and washed it Howard stared at the garbage truck cruising slowly down the street.Put a David Smith out for the garbage truck to haul off?
ˈgarbage ˌtruck nounChineseSyllable
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garbage truck
ˈgarbage ˌtruck noun [countable]
American English a large vehicle which goes from house to house to collect the contents of garbage cans
   SYN  dust cart British English


garbage truckBrE /ˈɡɑːbɪdʒ trʌk/ 🔊NAmE /ˈɡɑːrbɪdʒ trʌk/ 🔊 (NAmE) (BrE dust·cart) nouna vehicle for collecting rubbish/garbage from outside houses, etc. 垃圾车