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half-tracked

half-tracked adjective: of a vehicle, having both wheels and caterpillar tracks.

Adjective

half-tracked (not comparable)

  1. Of a vehicle, having both wheels and caterpillar tracks.
    • On a day in the summer which began our sixth year Josella and I went down to the coast together, traveling there in the half-tracked vehicle that I customarily used now that the roads were growing so bad.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 241

Questions about half-tracked

What does half-tracked mean?
Half-tracked means of a vehicle, having both wheels and caterpillar tracks.
What part of speech is half-tracked?
Half-tracked is an adjective.

Words near half-tracked in the dictionary

  1. half-tone
  2. half-toned
  3. half-tones
  4. half-toning
  5. half-track
  6. half-tracked
  7. half-tracker
  8. half-trackers
  9. half-tracks
  10. half-truth
  11. half-truths

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