lorry
noun /ˈlɒri/
/ˈlɔːri/
(British English) (plural lorries)
(also truck especially in North American English)
Idioms - a large vehicle for carrying heavy loads by road
enlarge image- a lorry driver
- a lorry load of frozen fish
- by lorry Emergency food supplies were brought in by lorry.
Extra Examples- A dozen people suffered minor injuries after a lorry jackknifed on an icy M62.
- Her husband was a long-distance lorry driver.
- The lorry had shed its load under the bridge.
- The motorway was closed by an overturned lorry.
- a refrigerated lorry carrying beer
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- heavy
- huge
- …
- convoy
- drive
- be laden with something
- carry something
- travel
- …
- driver
- load
- a lorry sheds its load
Word Originmid 19th cent.: perhaps from the given name Laurie.
Idioms
off the back of a lorry
- (British English, informal, humorous) goods that fell off the back of a lorry were probably stolen. People say or accept that they came ‘off the back of a lorry’ to avoid saying or asking where they really came from.