truckload

noun

truck·​load ˈtrək-ˈlōd 

-ˌlōd

1

: a load or amount that fills or could fill a truck

2

: the minimum weight required for shipping at truckload rates

3

: a large amount

truckloads of money

Synonyms

• abundance
• barrel
• basketful
• boatload
• bucket
• bunch
• bundle
• bushel
• carload
• chunk
• deal
• dozen
• fistful
• gobs
• good deal
• heap
• hundred
• lashings [chiefly British]
• lashins
• loads
• lot
• mass
• mess
• mountain
• much
• multiplicity
• myriad
• oodles
• pack
• passel
• peck
• pile
• plateful
• plenitude
• plentitude
• plenty
• pot
• potful
• profusion
• quantity
• raft
• reams
• scads
• sheaf
• shipload
• sight
• slew
• spate
• stack
• store
• ton
• volume
• wad
• wealth
• yard

Examples of truckload in a Sentence

the guy who sent that e-mail is in for a truckload of misery

Recent Examples on the Web

The film follows twin brothers Smoke and Stack (Michael B. Jordan, in dual roles), two Mississippi exiles who head back down to their hometown with a truckload of Irish beer and whisky stolen from an Illinois mafia. —India Roby, Architectural Digest, 9 May 2025

Veterans arrived en mass to Standing Rock, bringing a massive amount of supplies including winter clothing, food and firewood by the truckload. —Seiji Yamashita, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2025

The board of directors at the LTL, truckload and logistics services provider began a strategic review of the company after multiple activist investors have been pushing for a sale process for months. —Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 13 Jan. 2025

Every road needed to be dirt instead of paved, so the dirt was brought in by the truckload. —Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1862, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for truckload

• abode
• anode
• barcode
• bestowed
• boatload
• borrowed
• carload
• caseload
• cathode
• commode
• corrode
• crossroad

Kids Definition

truckload

noun

truck·​load ˈtrək-ˈlōd 

-ˌlōd

: a load or amount that fills or could fill a truck