trucking
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 19
- Letters
- 8
/ˈtɹʌkɪŋ/
(UK)
Definition of trucking
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(archaic, countable, uncountable)Trading, bartering.
“This they were wont to use also for hatchets, but now by trucking they have plentie of the same forme of yron.”
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noun
-
(archaic, countable, uncountable)Trading, bartering.
“This they were wont to use also for hatchets, but now by trucking they have plentie of the same forme of yron.”
- (US, countable, uncountable)the conveyance of freight by trucks.
- (countable, uncountable)Lateral movement of the camera.
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(countable, uncountable)moving quickly
“Truckin,' he says, means moving along with zest and enjoying it”
“I could've killed that kid. I mean, I was really truckin'. So I blow out my knee to save his life and I'm on the ground in a swastika, and the mother just grabs his hand and keeps walking.”
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(countable, uncountable)walking
“Most backpackers don't realize that on every hike, usually without thinking about it, they walk on their stomach - with Vibram-soled boots. The way Napoleon said an army marches on its tum-tum. The food we drop into our stomach is what keeps us truckin'. Body fuel. It supplies calories to keep our legs moving”
“2010 Thomas Bruso, AC TRANSIT BUS FIGHT-- Interview w Tom (Epic Beard Man) doghousefm 1 minute 30 seconds I walked away, you saw me trucking. Trucking means walking.”
“I walk arm in arm with buddies, stepping together like Mr. Natural, trucking along”
“Truck - Used as a verb, it means to go somewhere. "Let's truck down to the Cotton Club." The etymology of the word seems obvious enough: to truck is to transport or carry, so the sense here is to transport or carry oneself somewhere.”
“trucking or truckin' moving along at one's own pace, in one's own, individual way. The walking style performed by Mr. Natural in the Zap Comics, drawn by R. Crumb. A term popularized by the Grateful Dead in their 1971 song "Truckin'."”
verb
- (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of truck
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Etymology
From truck + -ing.
Words you can make from trucking
92 playable · top: RUCKING (14 pts)
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- NICK 10 pts
- RICK 10 pts
- RUCK 10 pts
- TICK 10 pts
- TUCK 10 pts
- GINK 9 pts
- GUNK 9 pts
- KING 9 pts
- KIRN 8 pts
- KNIT 8 pts
- KNUR 8 pts
- RINK 8 pts
- TURK 8 pts
- CRIT 6 pts
- CURN 6 pts
- CURT 6 pts
- UNCI 6 pts
- URIC 6 pts
- GIRN 5 pts
- GIRT 5 pts
- GRIN 5 pts
- GRIT 5 pts
- RING 5 pts
- RUNG 5 pts
- TING 5 pts
- TRIG 5 pts
- TRUG 5 pts
- TUNG 5 pts
- RUIN 4 pts
- RUNT 4 pts
- TURN 4 pts
- UNIT 4 pts
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