Meaning of belly-dumper | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“Or it wasn't until they woke up one morning and found the encroaching wave⟳ of tarmac lapping at their doorstep and a belly-dumper burying the lot next door in a mound of gravel, preparatory to the erection of the next Costco.”

“It leads me to think⟳ of Tom Flood⟳, and his mother Dorothy who grew up in this territory, who set⟳ the dead sea of wheat against itself, growing green under the sapping sun long before belly-dumpers and tip-trucks rolled along this road.”

“It's like⟳ a huge belly-dumper dropped several loads in the canyon, leaving a 0.5-mile stretch⟳ 10 feet deep with gravel.”

CEFR level