supercab

English

Pickup truck with a supercab

Etymology

From super- +‎ cab.

Pronunciation

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Noun

supercab (plural supercabs)

1. A front compartment on a truck that includes an extra seat behind the driver's seat.
   • 1993, Dana Stabenow, Dead in the Water, →ISBN, page 27:

     She dodged a red Ford pickup with a supercab crammed with an indeterminate amount of people in bright yellow rain gear, and came upon a group of fishermen, identical in jeans, plaid shirts, shoepaks, navy-blue knit watch caps and unshaven faces.

   • 2010, Samantha Peale, The American Painter Emma Dial: A Novel, →ISBN, page 198:

     New station wagons and trucks with supercabs sped along Broadway when I walked back to the JMZ station.

   • 2017, Jean C. Gordon, Reuniting His Family, page 1489244425:

     Mrs. Hill's husband has a F-350 pickup with a supercab so Dylan's booster seat fits and we can ride with Mr. Hill in the back seat.

2. A truck that has a supercab.
   • 2008, S. Renee Greene, The Hearts of Black Folk, →ISBN, page 85:

     Rental and vacation properties, a private plane, a few cars, debt-soluble hard cash in the bank, who could just conveniently send his daughter off to private school and not have it put a terminal strain on his pocket; along with a hunting dog and a rifle in the back of his Ford F150 supercab; and who makes more than a million dollars a year working only part-time.

   • 2012, Allan Young, Me and Jake, →ISBN, page 22:

     I have owned small ones, large ones, supercabs (my wife doesn't like those, too long), automatics, stick shifts, sun roofs, camper tops, flat beds, racks, four-wheel drives.

   • 2014, Andrew Nikiforuk, Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil, →ISBN, page 223:

     At 3:30 in the morning on Sunday, June 20, 1999, Brian Petterson, 19-year-old grandson of a wealthy construction-company owner, drove his green three-quarter-ton Chevy supercab into Hythe to drop off two tired pals.