dump truck

noun

: an automotive truck for the transportation of bulk material that has a body which tilts to dump its contents

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Operations begin striking all the tough blocks, the banners, and the structures, while simultaneously the dirt team is taking all the dirt and piling it into the center so that dump trucks can get around it. —

Maury Brown, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024 Meanwhile, Florida Department of Transportation crews have cleared 50,000 cubic yards of sand from barrier island roads — enough to fill more than 3,000 dump trucks. —

Kathryn Varn, Axios, 1 Oct. 2024 As a tech giant, the laundry list of products the company makes includes: hydraulic cranes, mining dump trucks, specialty steels, power grids, transformers, green energy systems, trains, auto parts, supercomputers, elevators and escalators. —

Quispe López, Them, 19 Sep. 2024 There were maybe 75 people on a pretty big dump truck, all crammed in. —

Lea Lane, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for dump truck