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milk truck

milk truck noun: any of several types of truck used for road transportation of liquid fresh milk; usually, a tanker truck for bulk transport; formerly often a stakebody truck to pick up milk churns (milk cans); sometimes a truck to deliver milk bottles for home delivery.

milk truck: any of several types of truck used for road transportation of liquid fresh milk; usually, a tanker...
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Noun (1)

milk truck (plural milk trucks)

  1. (US) Any of several types of truck used for road transportation of liquid fresh milk; usually, a tanker truck for bulk transport; formerly often a stakebody truck to pick up milk churns (milk cans); sometimes a truck to deliver milk bottles for home delivery.
    • Electrification helped farmers, but in addition, the farm routine was greatly simplified because milk itself became the desired commodity instead of cream and butter. Milk trucks traveled to neighborhoods like North Pomfret to pick up cans of milk and haul them to the creamery for processing. The...2011, Cameron Clifford, Farms, Flatlanders, and Fords: A Story of People and Place in Rural Vermont 1890-2010

Noun (2)

milk truck (plural milk trucks)

  1. (figuratively, slang) An unarmored or lightly protected truck-like vehicle, sensitive (fragile, exposed) to damage.
    • You need to protect me: I am only a milk truck.
    • I see a column driving without armor support, only milk trucks.

Examples of milk truck in a sentence

  • It's only a milk truck, don't waste ammunition for the main gun.
  • No milk trucks were harmed during the making of this video.
  • Milk trucks traveled to neighborhoods like North Pomfret to pick up cans of milk and haul them to the creamery for processing.2011, Cameron Clifford, Farms, Flatlanders, and Fords: A Story of People and Place in Rural Vermont 1890-2010:

Forms of milk truck

pluralmilk trucks

Origin of milk truck

milk + truck

Figuratively from the vehicle. Popularized through the video game War Thunder, which features many unprotected or lightly armored truck-like vehicles to play, like the soviet GAZ-MM and Sd.Kfz. 6/2, both visually similar to old milk trucks, but also sensitive to damage, like trucks loaded with glass milk bottles. Coined as early as 2014 when the game added playable ground vehicles, including said trucks, possibly coined by the content creator PhlyDaily.

Questions about milk truck

What does milk truck mean?
Milk truck means any of several types of truck used for road transportation of liquid fresh milk; usually, a tanker truck for bulk transport; formerly often a stakebody truck to pick up milk churns (milk cans); sometimes a truck to deliver milk bottles for home delivery.
How do you use milk truck in a sentence?
It's only a milk truck, don't waste ammunition for the main gun.
What part of speech is milk truck?
Milk truck is a noun.
What is the plural of milk truck?
The plural of milk truck is milk trucks.

Words near milk truck in the dictionary

  1. milk tongue
  2. milk tooth
  3. milk train
  4. milk trains
  5. milk treading
  6. milk truck
  7. milk trucks
  8. milk tusk
  9. milk tusks
  10. milk vetch
  11. milk vetches

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