garbage truck
noun
US
: a truck used to take away garbage that people put outside their houses, buildings, etc., in bags or cans
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From our review: The heist takes up more than 20 minutes of screen time, but Hviid — who has to juggle the robbers at the firm, the garbage truck drivers, the police and a security guard (Amanda Collin) — makes a hash of the competing perspectives.
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The New York Times, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Firefighters instead tried to aim water right into the back of the garbage truck without wetting the CNG cylinders nearby on the roof.
—Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2025
Three people, of which two were police officers and one a firefighter, were injured when a garbage truck exploded in a Chicago suburb last Friday.
—Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2024
Scientists estimate a garbage truck's worth of plastic waste enters the oceans every minute, where large debris threatens fish, sea turtles and marine mammals with entanglement and smaller plastics enter the ocean food web.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
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The New York Times, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Firefighters instead tried to aim water right into the back of the garbage truck without wetting the CNG cylinders nearby on the roof.
—Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2025
Three people, of which two were police officers and one a firefighter, were injured when a garbage truck exploded in a Chicago suburb last Friday.
—Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2024
Scientists estimate a garbage truck's worth of plastic waste enters the oceans every minute, where large debris threatens fish, sea turtles and marine mammals with entanglement and smaller plastics enter the ocean food web.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
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“Garbage truck.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/garbage%20truck. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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