Meaning of truckie | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A truck driver.
   Australia, New-Zealand, slang
2. A firefighter who works from a fire truck.
   slang

Examples

“2005, “Marcus”, quoted in Rose McCrohan, Chapter 3: I Don′t Care If I Live or Die, Keith D. Gilbert (editor), Sexuality, Sport and the Culture of Risk, Volume 6, page 45, I met up with a truckie and stayed on the road with him for most of the two months. I learnt how to drive the truck, even though I didn't have a truck or even a car license. I got to know other truckies and they used to ask for me on the CB radio.”

“On the day of the funeral truckies on their way to the container wharf slow down as they pass the Railway Hotel and sound their earth-shattering horns.”

“Look for the epitaph to a local female truckie outside the roadhouse.”

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