trucking

Noun

trucking (countable and uncountable, plural truckings)

1. (archaic) Trading, bartering.
   • This they were wont to use also for hatchets, but now by trucking they have plentie of the same forme of yron.1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 143
2. (US) the conveyance of freight by trucks.
3. Lateral movement of the camera.
4. moving quickly
   • Truckin,' he says, means moving along with zest and enjoying it1973, Nuclear News, Volume 16, Issue 2, page 88
   • I could've killed that kid. I mean, I was really truckin'. So I blow out my knee to save his life and I'm on the ground in a swastika, and the mother just grabs his hand and keeps walking.2009, Laura Jacobs, The Bird Catcher, page 115
5. walking
   • Most backpackers don't realize that on every hike, usually without thinking about it, they walk on their stomach - with Vibram-soled boots. The way Napoleon said an army marches on its tum-tum. The food we drop into our stomach is what keeps us truckin'. Body fuel. It supplies calories to keep our...1975 Steve Netherby, Camping, Field & Stream Magazine Nov 1975 issue, page 130
   • I walked away, you saw me trucking. Trucking means walking.2010 Thomas Bruso, AC TRANSIT BUS FIGHT-- Interview w Tom (Epic Beard Man) doghousefm 1 minute 30 seconds