garbage truck

1. 1.

   a truck for collecting domestic refuse

   “in Britain a garbage truck is called a dustcart”

   Synonymsdustcart

   Broadertruck

Questions about garbage truck

What does garbage truck mean?

garbage truck means "a truck for collecting domestic refuse".

What is another word for garbage truck?

Close synonyms include dustcart. 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 garbage truck a common word?

garbage truck 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.