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skip lorry

skip lorry noun: a commercial vehicle, fitted with a hydraulic hoist, which delivers skips (for rubble, waste and general rubbish) to customers, and collects them once they have been filled for emptying at a landfill site.

skip lorry: a commercial vehicle, fitted with a hydraulic hoist, which delivers skips (for rubble, waste and...
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Noun

skip lorry (plural skip lorries)

  1. (UK) A commercial vehicle, fitted with a hydraulic hoist, which delivers skips (for rubble, waste and general rubbish) to customers, and collects them once they have been filled for emptying at a landfill site.

Forms of skip lorry

pluralskip lorries

Questions about skip lorry

What does skip lorry mean?
Skip lorry means a commercial vehicle, fitted with a hydraulic hoist, which delivers skips (for rubble, waste and general rubbish) to customers, and collects them once they have been filled for emptying at a landfill site.
What part of speech is skip lorry?
Skip lorry is a noun.
What is the plural of skip lorry?
The plural of skip lorry is skip lorries.

Words near skip lorry in the dictionary

  1. skip hoist
  2. skip hoists
  3. skip list
  4. skip lists
  5. skip lorries
  6. skip lorry
  7. skip out
  8. skip printing
  9. skip rope
  10. skip ropes
  11. skip school

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