What does dump truck mean?
dump truck
Plural: dump trucks
Definition
A truck whose open back tips up so that its load of sand, gravel or earth slides out.
Example sentences
A dump truck dumped a whole load of sand right in front of our garage, and nobody's coming to use it till Monday.
Those dump trucks coming out of the quarry are always overloaded — there's gravel all over the road.
Those dump trucks coming out of the quarry are always overloaded — there's gravel all over the road.
Dump trucks have been going in and out of that lot all week — what are they digging, a subway station?