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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Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers said the 70-year-old dump truck driver traveled off the side of an Owensville road around 9 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28, before striking a utility pole, parking post and tree.
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Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2025
The police also seized the dump truck, along with its remaining manure, which had been sourced from an animal sanctuary in New Jersey, Byrne said.
—Gabe Whisnant, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
As part of a military parade in Pyongyang in 2023, the North Korean army showed off a variety of civilian box trucks and dump trucks with multiple-launch rocket tubes secreted inside them.
—David Axe, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Thirty-five years after millions of East Germans tossed their Soviet-era stuff as quickly as the dump trucks could haul it away, young people who weren’t yet born when communist rule ended are finding joy and identity in certain German Democratic Republic collectibles.
—Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Nov. 2024
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Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2025
The police also seized the dump truck, along with its remaining manure, which had been sourced from an animal sanctuary in New Jersey, Byrne said.
—Gabe Whisnant, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
As part of a military parade in Pyongyang in 2023, the North Korean army showed off a variety of civilian box trucks and dump trucks with multiple-launch rocket tubes secreted inside them.
—David Axe, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Thirty-five years after millions of East Germans tossed their Soviet-era stuff as quickly as the dump trucks could haul it away, young people who weren’t yet born when communist rule ended are finding joy and identity in certain German Democratic Republic collectibles.
—Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Nov. 2024
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“Dump truck.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dump%20truck. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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