eighteen-wheeler

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eight·een-wheel·er

[ey-teen-hwee-ler, -wee-]
noun
a large tractor-trailer, usually having ten wheels on the cab and eight on the trailer.
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eighteen-wheeler definition


  1. n.
    a large trailer truck. (There are a total of eighteen wheels on the cab and trailer.) : An eighteen-wheeler almost ran me off the road.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Eighteen-wheeler is always a great word to know.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
The work in which he was engaged involved washing eighteen-wheeler trucks with a high pressure hose.
Eighteen-wheeler trucks have suddenly come to life, operating without drivers and terrorizing people.
He purchased two eighteen-wheeler trucks, which were garaged at his house and were maintained primarily by him.
He was involved in a motor vehicle accident while driving an eighteen-wheeler.
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