teamster

noun

team·ster ˈtēm(p)-stər

: one who drives a team or motortruck especially as an occupation

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The film follows a truck driver who becomes a hitman for a mobster and also ends up working with famed teamster Jimmy Hoffa. —

Milan Polk, Men's Health, 27 Feb. 2023 A day of chocolates, roses, romance, and teamster organizing. —

Vulture, 14 Feb. 2022 Burton’s start in Newport, in the mid-19th century, had been a humble one, working as a teamster hauling coal and goods from the docks for other business owners. —

Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022 The former Lorraine Bertina Thomas, daughter of Earl Thomas, a teamster, and Beulah Regusters Thomas, a homemaker, was one of six children and born at home on Edmondson Avenue and raised in the city’s Wilson Park neighborhood. —

Baltimore Sun, 24 Aug. 2022 On Thursday, June 2, 1892, Robert Lewis, a 28-year-old African-American teamster and bus driver in the village of Port Jervis, N.Y., was killed by a mob. —

David S. Reynolds, WSJ, 8 June 2022 The 375-acre farm site is a historically intact former 1840s farm and teamster inn being restored as an 1840s working farm museum by volunteers and donors from around the country, farm officials said. —

Beacon-news Staff, chicagotribune.com, 21 Feb. 2022 After years of introducing what was first called the Butch Lewis Act (named after an Ohio teamster), Brown worked to get his pension-salvaging plan into the American Rescue Plan. —

David Browne, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2021 For the rest of his life, Dinning supported his family as a teamster and laborer. —

Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2021 See More

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