eighteen-wheeler
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eight·een-wheel·er
• n. a large tractor-trailer with eighteen wheels.
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Life behind bars. (rising prison population ) (Editorial)
Magazine article from: The Progressive; 7/1/1993; 700+ words
; ...deer they brought in there with not a single bone unbroken. The truck driver who brought it in must've run over it with all eighteen wheels. Every month, more such cases show up in Prison Legal News. They always remind us of Dostoevsky's observation that the degree...
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Songs of life for school leaders.(Guest Column)
Magazine article from: School Administrator; 1/1/2004; ; 604 words
; ...venting parent. When you're weary, feeling small. When tears are in your eyes, I will dry them all. I'm on your side. * Eighteen Wheels and A Dozen Roses by Kathy Mattea. This is a remember where you came from and trucker song. Charlie wears a blue collar...
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honcho
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...x2022; v. ( -choes , -choed ) [ tr. ] be in charge of (a project or situation): the task at hand was to honcho an eighteen-wheeler to St. Louis. ORIGIN: 1940s : from Japanese hanchō ‘group leader,’ a term brought back to the...
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Spielberg, Steven
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...named Duel. It was about a deadly battle of wits between an ordinary man driving a car and a crazed driver of an eighteen-wheeler truck. It was generally regarded as one of the greatest movies ever made for U.S. television. It was released in...
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