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milk trucks

milk trucks is the plural of milk truck.

Meaning of milk truck

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.

Questions about milk trucks

What is milk trucks the plural of?
Milk trucks is the plural of milk truck.

Words near milk trucks in the dictionary

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

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