articulated lorry

Questions about articulated lorry

What does articulated lorry mean?

articulated lorry means "a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together".

What is another word for articulated lorry?

Close synonyms include trailer truck, tractor trailer, trucking rig, rig, semi. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is articulated lorry a common word?

articulated lorry is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.