dumptruck

See also: dump truck

English

Noun

dumptruck (plural dumptrucks)

1. Alternative form of dump truck.
   • 1982, Ken Chowder, Delicate Geometry, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 125:

     The shells had mounted up for some time: there were several dumptrucks’ worth piled up down below the door.

   • 1999, Louisa Gradnitzer, Todd Pittson, X Marks the Spot: On Location with the X-Files, Vancouver, B.C.: Arsenal Pulp Press, →ISBN, page 80:

     The buried train car necessitated blasting a hole in the rock to create a depression and the removal of thirty-two dumptrucks worth of boulders.

   • 2016, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Island People: The Caribbean and the World, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 255:

     After the quake, it was only natural that this would be the place where many of the dumptrucks conveying corpses from town brought their grisly cargo—and where now the government had chosen, atop the bleached-white pebbles of a mass grave, to erect its official memorial to the dead.