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cattle truck

cattle truck noun: a wagon used to transport livestock.

cattle truck: a wagon used to transport livestock
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Noun

cattle truck (plural cattle trucks)

  1. A wagon used to transport livestock.
    • It would be fair to say that seats have become smaller - and an Underground manager once told me that the ideal train would have no seats, and the whole platform-side of it would roll up and down like a venetian blind. It would be a cattle truck, in other words.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 211

Verb

cattle truck (third-person singular simple present cattle trucks, present participle cattle trucking, simple past and past participle cattle trucked)

  1. (transitive) To transport on, or as if on, a cattle truck.
    • If they're all going some distance, then all the wannabee commuter sees is a procession of busses trundling past that they can't get on. OTOH you are, however, likely to be able to cram on a train and play sardines with total strangers. ¶ Neither of those experiences - hanging round a bus stop or...2005 April 16, Lin, “Re: Sustainable Transport”, in uk.rec.cycling (Usenet)
  2. (Cockney, slang, transitive) To fuck (“to break, destroy”).
    • I had set permissions on the public folders so no one could create any a while back. I set the permissions back so everyone could create a folder, but I think i might have cattle trucked the whole thing now, as the public store, and folders seem to have disappeared from exchange system manager.2002 June 12, mrlargeit, “Public Folder Store Disappeared”, in microsoft.public.exchange2000.information.store (Usenet)
    Synonyms:
    cattle

Synonyms of cattle truck

Forms of cattle truck

Noun
pluralcattle trucks
alternative formcattle-truck
Verb
third-person singular presentcattle trucks
present participlecattle trucking
past participlecattle trucked
pastcattle trucked

Questions about cattle truck

What does cattle truck mean?
Cattle truck means a wagon used to transport livestock.
What part of speech is cattle truck?
Cattle truck can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of cattle truck?
The plural of cattle truck is cattle trucks.

Words near cattle truck in the dictionary

  1. cattle ranches
  2. cattle station
  3. cattle stations
  4. cattle tick
  5. cattle ticks
  6. cattle truck
  7. cattle trucked
  8. cattle trucking
  9. cattle trucks
  10. cattle up
  11. cattle wagon

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