dump truck

See also: dumptruck

English

Alternative forms

• dumptruck

Pronunciation

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Noun

dump truck (plural dump trucks)

1. A heavy truck, for carrying loose, bulk cargo, having a hinged bed that allows the contents to be unloaded onto the ground.
   • 2023 March 8, Chris Howe, “Building the platform for Old Oak Common's platforms”, in RAIL, number 978, page 60:

     Specialised long-reach excavators with a clamshell grab then reach though the openings to lift the spoil to the surface, which is then deposited in articulated dump trucks (ADTs).

2. (slang) A large pair of buttocks.

   Synonym: junk in the trunk

Synonyms

• dumper truck
• tipper, tipper truck (British)
• tip truck (British and Australian)

Translations

heavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo

• Arabic: شَاحِنَة تَفْرِيغ f (šāḥinat tafrīḡ)

  Hijazi Arabic: قَلَّاب m (gallāb)

• Armenian: ինքնաթափ (hy) (inkʻnatʻapʻ)
• Azerbaijani: özüboşaldan
• Belarusian: самазва́л m (samazvál)
• Bulgarian: самосва́л m (samosvál)
• Catalan: camió de trabuc (ca) m, bolquet m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自卸車／自卸车 (zh) (zìxièchē)

• Czech: sklápěč m
• Danish: dumper c
• Dutch: kiepwagen m
• Estonian: kallur
• Finnish: lavakuorma-auto
• French: camion à benne basculante m, camion-tombereau m, tombereau (fr) m, camion benne (fr) m
• Georgian: თვითმცლელი (tvitmcleli)
• German: Kipper (de) m, Muldenkipper (de) m
• Greek: ανατρεπόμενο n (anatrepómeno)
• Hausa: tīfā̀ f
• Hindi: डंप ट्रक m (ḍamp ṭrak)
• Hungarian: dömper (hu)
• Icelandic: búkolla f
• Irish: dumpaire m
• Italian: mezzo d'opera m
• Japanese: ダンプカー (ja) (danpukā)
• Kazakh: қотарғыш (qotarğyş), самосвал (samosval)
• Korean: 덤프트럭 (deompeuteureok)
• Kyrgyz: самосвал (samosval)
• Macedonian: кипер m (kiper)
• Ossetian: хӕдӕвдӕлонгӕнгӕ машина (xædævdælongængæ mašina)
• Persian: کامیون کمپرسی (kâmiyon-e komperesi), کمپرسی (fa) (komperesi), دامپتراک (dâmp-terâk)
• Plautdietsch: Domptrock m
• Polish: wywrotka (pl) f
• Portuguese: basculante (pt), caminhão-caçamba m, caçamba (pt) f
• Romanian: autobasculantă (ro) f
• Russian: самосва́л (ru) m (samosvál)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ки̏пер m

  Roman: kȉper (sh) m

• Slovak: sklápač m
• Slovene: kiper m
• Spanish: volquete m, dompe m (N Mexico), camión de volteo m
• Swedish: anläggningsbil (sv) c, dumper (sv) c
• Tajik: самосвал (samosval), худрез (xudrez)
• Turkish: damperli kamyon
• Ukrainian: самоски́д m (samoskýd)
• Urdu: ڈمپ ٹرک m (ḍamp ṭrak)
• Uzbek: samosval (uz)
• Vietnamese: xe ben (vi)

See also

• mudflaps

 

Further reading

• dump truck on Wikipedia.Wikipedia