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leaf truck

leaf truck noun: a specialized vehicle, often a truck equipped with a vacuum system, used for collecting loose leaves from streets, sidewalks, and other areas.

leaf truck: a specialized vehicle, often a truck equipped with a vacuum system, used for collecting loose...
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Noun

leaf truck (plural leaf trucks)

  1. A specialized vehicle, often a truck equipped with a vacuum system, used for collecting loose leaves from streets, sidewalks, and other areas.
    • The dogs were barking over at the pigfarm,
      the leaftruck was crawling through autumn,
      lovers were unbuttoning in cellars
      and what was I up to in that badlit attic?1977, David Young, “The Names of a Hare in English: Les noms de un levre en englais”, in Poetry, volume 131, number 2, page 84 of 78-87

Forms of leaf truck

pluralleaf trucks
alternative formleaftruck

Questions about leaf truck

What does leaf truck mean?
Leaf truck means a specialized vehicle, often a truck equipped with a vacuum system, used for collecting loose leaves from streets, sidewalks, and other areas.
What part of speech is leaf truck?
Leaf truck is a noun.
What is the plural of leaf truck?
The plural of leaf truck is leaf trucks.

Words near leaf truck in the dictionary

  1. leaf through
  2. leaf tier
  3. leaf tiers
  4. leaf trace
  5. leaf traces
  6. leaf truck
  7. leaf trucks
  8. leaf turtle
  9. leaf turtles
  10. leaf valve
  11. leaf valves

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