tow truck

1. 1.

   a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones)

   Synonymstow carwrecker

   Broadertruck

Questions about tow truck

What does tow truck mean?

tow truck means "a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones)".

What is another word for tow truck?

Close synonyms include tow car, wrecker. 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 tow truck a common word?

tow truck is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.