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monster truck

noun

Etymology

Literally, monster (“very large”) + truck (“motor vehicle”). Reportedly coined by Bob George, an owner of a motorsports promotion company, in the early 1980s, when referring to a popularly oversized truck named Bigfoot. Through semantic generalization, it came to refer to any of these oversized trucks.

  1. derived from *der-✻ — “to flay, split”
  2. derived from *derew-✻
  3. inherited from *trokōn✻ — “to fail, miss, lack”
  4. inherited from trucian — “to fail, run short, deceive, disappoint”
  5. inherited from truken
  6. compounded as monster truck — “monster + truck”

Definitions

  1. A large truck designed specifically to perform in monster truck shows, typically based on…

    A large truck designed specifically to perform in monster truck shows, typically based on a lifted pickup truck with oversized wheels and modified suspension.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA