Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who drives a truck.
  • noun One that is engaged in trucking goods.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who trucks; one who traffics by exchange of goods.
  • noun A truck-farmer; a market-gardener, or one who sells garden-stuff, especially at wholesale.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who trucks; a trafficker.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who drives a truck.
  • noun archaic or dialectal One who trucks or trafficks, by trade of goods; a trafficker.
  • noun pejorative One who has done something offensive; a deceitful, dishonest, or disreputable person; a deceiver; a cheat.
  • noun pejorative, Scotland A rogue; rascal; miscreant; a ne'er-do-well.
  • adjective pejorative, Scotland Dishonest; resulting from or inspired by dishonesty.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who drives a truck as an occupation

Etymologies

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From truck (“a vehicle”) +‎ -er.

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From truck (“to barter, trade”) +‎ -er.

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From Middle English *trukere (“one who disappoints, a deceiver”), from Middle English trukien ("to fail, run out, disappoint"), equivalent to truck (“to fail”) +‎ -er. Compare trooker.

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