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truck

2 verb
     
truck2 American English
1 [transitive] also truck in to take something somewhere by truck:
They ordered sand to be trucked in from the desert.
2 [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] spoken to go, move, or travel quickly:
We were trucking on down to Jack's place.
3

get trucking

spoken to leave
4

keep on trucking

spoken used to encourage someone to continue what they are doing, especially in the 1970s
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