minitruck

English

Etymology

mini- +‎ truck

Noun

minitruck (plural minitrucks)

1. (US) A compact pickup truck designed for light duty.
   • 2008 June 29, Paul Duchene, “Part-Time Pickups Back From the Outback”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Recent attempts to market practical part-time pickups in the United States — the Subaru Baja, for instance — and earlier minitruck efforts like the Rabbit-based Volkswagen Pickup and the Omni-based Dodge Rampage never fired buyers’ imagination.