truck driver

See also: truckdriver and truck-driver

English

truck driver (plural truck drivers)

(US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A person employed to drive a truck, especially a tractor-trailer or other large industrial truck.
(skiing) A freestyle skiing aerialist move involving grabbing the front end of one's skis on a jump in a pike position, similar to holding the large steering wheel of a big truck.
Hypernyms: pike, double-grab

Coordinate terms: mute grab, Japan grab
(cycling) A freestyle BMX move involving turning the bicycle handlebar 360-degrees, akin to spinning the steering wheel of a big truck to turn.
(military slang, World War I– World War II) A bomber pilot.[1]

person employed to drive a truck

Afrikaans: vragmotorbestuurder, trokdrywer
Asturian: camioneru m
Catalan: camioner m, camionera f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 卡車司機／卡车司机 (kǎchē sījī)
Danish: lastbilchauffør (da) c
Dutch: vrachtwagenchauffeur (nl) m
Estonian: veoautojuht
Finnish: kuorma-auton kuljettaja; rekka-auton kuljettaja, (colloquial) rekkakuski (fi)
French: chauffeur de camion m, routier (fr) m, camionneur (fr) m
Galician: camioneiro (gl) m, camioneira f
German: Lastwagenfahrer (de) m, Lkw-Fahrer (de) m
Greek: νταλικέρης (el) m (ntalikéris), νταλικέρισσα f (ntalikérissa), φορτηγατζής (el) m (fortigatzís), φορτηγατζού f (fortigatzoú)
Ido: kamionisto (io)
Indonesian: sopir truk
Italian: camionista (it)
Japanese: トラック運転手 (torakku untenshu)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lastebilsjåfør m

Nynorsk: lastebilsjåfør m
Polish: kierowca ciężarówki m
Portuguese: camionista (pt) m or f, caminhoneiro (pt) m (Brazil)
Romanian: camionagiu (ro) m, camionar (ro) m (rare)
Russian: води́тель грузовика́ m (vodítelʹ gruzoviká), дальнобо́йщик (ru) m (dalʹnobójščik) (long-distance)
Serbo-Croatian: kamiòndžija (sh)
Spanish: camionero m, camionera f
Swedish: lastbilschaufför (sv) c, långtradarchaufför (sv) c, tradarchaffis c
Turkish: kamyoncu (tr)

Lighter, Jonathan (1972) “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, in American Speech‎, volume 47, number 1/2, page 113

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