truck stop

noun

: a facility especially for truckers that is usually by a highway and that includes a diner, fuel pumps, and a garage

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Rebecca worked low-wage jobs throughout her career, mostly as a cashier at a truck stop. Annie Nova, CNBC, 17 Aug. 2024 Jacksonville County Sheriff's Office A suspect in the killing of an off-duty Florida sheriff's deputy, who was gunned down at a truck stop while trying to intervene in a domestic battery incident, was captured Sunday in North Carolina, authorities said. Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2024 Tope Alake and David R Baker | Bloomberg News (TNS) Charging an electric vehicle in the future increasingly looks like an experience somewhere between a truck stop and an airport lounge. Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 4 Oct. 2024 In the United States of the twenty-first century, our demands for liberty roar through every city, town, and truck stop. Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for truck stop 

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1951, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of truck stop was circa 1951

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“Truck stop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truck%20stop. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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