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Definition of "pickup truck" []

  • A light truck with an open body and low sides. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "pickup truck" in a sentence
  • "We moved that night in the dark, shoving as much furniture as possible into an old Chevy pickup truck Alice's new husband,-Silas, had borrowed from a friend."
  • "Ginny and Fran rode with Skip in his aging pickup truck over to House Junction, a warehouse-size store that sold just about everything needed to maintain a home."
  • "He drove his battered 1985 blue pickup truck up along Scotchman Peak Road, his metal berry pickers and two gallon-size pails rattling in a cardboard box next to him."
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