truckie

English

Etymology

From truck +‎ -ie.

Pronunciation

• Audio (AU):

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• Rhymes: -ʌki

Noun

truckie (plural truckies)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) 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.

   • 2007, Ron Davidson, Fremantle Impressions, Fremantle Press, page 282,

     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.

   • 2002, Rob Van Driesum, Outback Australia: Kakadu, Uluru and Kangaroos, Lonely Planet, page 452,

     Look for the epitaph to a local female truckie outside the roadhouse.