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bucket truck

bucket truck noun: a truck fitted with an extendable, hydraulic boom carrying a large bucket for raising people to elevated areas.

bucket truck: a truck fitted with an extendable, hydraulic boom carrying a large bucket for raising people to...
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Noun

bucket truck (plural bucket trucks)

  1. A truck fitted with an extendable, hydraulic boom carrying a large bucket for raising people to elevated areas.
    • The sign was nailed to the top of an electrical pole; the inability to remove it without a bucket truck reinforced the permanence of the opinion.2024 July 15, Heidi Julavits, “I Put Up a Fence in Maine. Why Did It Cause Such a Fuss?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    cherry picker

Synonyms of bucket truck

Forms of bucket truck

pluralbucket trucks

Questions about bucket truck

What does bucket truck mean?
Bucket truck means a truck fitted with an extendable, hydraulic boom carrying a large bucket for raising people to elevated areas.
What part of speech is bucket truck?
Bucket truck is a noun.
What is the plural of bucket truck?
The plural of bucket truck is bucket trucks.

Words near bucket truck in the dictionary

  1. bucket shops
  2. bucket sort
  3. bucket sorts
  4. bucket steak
  5. bucket steaks
  6. bucket truck
  7. bucket trucks
  8. bucket-head
  9. bucket-heads
  10. bucketable
  11. bucketball

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