truck driver

See also: truckdriver, and truck-driver

English

Alternative forms

• truckdriver, truck-driver

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

truck driver (plural truck drivers)

1. (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A person employed to drive a truck, especially a tractor-trailer or other large industrial truck.

   Synonyms: lorry driver (UK, Ireland, India, Pakistan), trucker (US, Canada), truckie (Australia, NZ)

   Hyponym: owner-operator (usually hyponymous)

2. (skiing) A freestyle skiing aerialist move involving grabbing the front end of one's skis on a jump in a pike position, similar to holding the large steering wheel of a big truck.

   Hypernyms: pike, double-grab

   Coordinate terms: mute grab, Japan grab

3. (cycling) A freestyle BMX move involving turning the bicycle handlebar 360-degrees, akin to spinning the steering wheel of a big truck to turn.
4. (military slang, World War I– World War II) A bomber pilot.

Related terms

• drive truck

 

Translations

person employed to drive a truck

• Afrikaans: vragmotorbestuurder, trokdrywer
• Asturian: camioneru m
• Catalan: camioner m, camionera f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卡車司機／卡车司机 (kǎchē sījī)

• Danish: lastbilchauffør (da) c
• Dutch: vrachtwagenchauffeur (nl) m
• Estonian: veoautojuht
• Finnish: kuorma-auton kuljettaja; rekka-auton kuljettaja, (colloquial) rekkakuski (fi)
• French: chauffeur de camion m, routier (fr) m, camionneur (fr) m
• Galician: camioneiro (gl) m, camioneira f
• German: Lastwagenfahrer (de) m, Lkw-Fahrer (de) m
• Greek: νταλικέρης (el) m (ntalikéris), νταλικέρισσα f (ntalikérissa), φορτηγατζής (el) m (fortigatzís), φορτηγατζού f (fortigatzoú)
• Ido: kamionisto (io)
• Indonesian: sopir truk
• Italian: camionista (it)
• Japanese: トラック運転手 (torakku untenshu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lastebilsjåfør m

  Nynorsk: lastebilsjåfør m

• Polish: kierowca ciężarówki m
• Portuguese: camionista (pt) m or f, caminhoneiro (pt) m (Brazil)
• Romanian: camionagiu (ro) m, camionar (ro) m (rare)
• Russian: води́тель грузовика́ m (vodítelʹ gruzoviká), дальнобо́йщик (ru) m (dalʹnobójščik) (long-distance)
• Serbo-Croatian: kamiòndžija (sh)
• Spanish: camionero m, camionera f
• Swedish: lastbilschaufför (sv) c, långtradarchaufför (sv) c, tradarchaffis c
• Turkish: kamyoncu (tr)

References

• “truck driver”, in Collins English Dictionary.