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tow truck

tow truck

noun

  1. a motor vehicle equipped for towing away wrecked or disabled cars Also calledbreakdown vanUS and Canadianwrecker


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Word History and Origins

Origin of tow truck1

First recorded in 1940–45

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Example Sentences

He can keep a roof over his head and the tow truck from coming for his car.

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This required a tow truck, so they brought every other car in to ensure this could happen as safely as possible.

The gods must have been watching over us that day, because the tow truck arrived within two hours and took us to an Ocala garage that does RV work.

Officials were waiting for cranes to get to the scene to “reach out at a distance that’s safe,” as there were concerns that the road could collapse under tow trucks.

In case of a vehicle breakdown, these can be handy on a cold night while you’re waiting for the tow truck.

The New York cops call him the tow truck driver to the presidents.

The Killer ordered the deputies to fetch his tow-truck man, David Camp, campaign manager to James Albert Riley.

I had no money to take it in to be repaired, and I certainly had nothing to pay the tow-truck driver.

Joe saw a crawling in-plant tow truck moving past those enigmatic objects.

The engine of his elderly Moreland tow-truck was brought to life by Solomon almost hidden behind the huge wooden steering wheel.

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