monster truck
monster truck noun: a large truck designed specifically to perform in monster truck shows, typically based on a lifted pickup truck with oversized wheels and modified suspension.
Noun
monster truck (plural monster trucks)
- A large truck designed specifically to perform in monster truck shows, typically based on a lifted pickup truck with oversized wheels and modified suspension.
Forms of monster truck
| plural | monster trucks |
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Origin of monster truck
Literally, monster (“very large”) + truck (“motor vehicle”). Reportedly coined by Bob George, an owner of a motorsports promotion company, in the early 1980s, when referring to a popularly oversized truck named Bigfoot. Through semantic generalization, it came to refer to any of these oversized trucks.
Questions about monster truck
- What does monster truck mean?
- Monster truck means a large truck designed specifically to perform in monster truck shows, typically based on a lifted pickup truck with oversized wheels and modified suspension.
- What part of speech is monster truck?
- Monster truck is a noun.
- What is the plural of monster truck?
- The plural of monster truck is monster trucks.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: monster truck (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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