teamster
noun
team·ster
ˈtēm(p)-stər 
: one who drives a team or motortruck especially as an occupation
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Richard Nixon commuted the sentence of teamster Jimmy Hoffa, and Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon.
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Brit McCandless Farmer, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025
Plane likely didn't include local teamster members, per Local 89
The majority of UPS's thousands of hourly employees that work at UPS Worldport are members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union.
—Keisha Rowe, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Nov. 2025
The search introduced me to a bilingual juggler in a Wild West show, an Irish teamster carting a scalped body, an ambitious Lakota lawyer, an angry wife who flees to Paris, and an angry husband who kills his wife in a Wyoming restaurant.
—Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
Now only Ice-T and Hargitay remain (though several crewmembers from Fazekas’ initial run on the show still work there, including the teamster who picked her up for her first day back).
—Scarlett Harris, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
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Brit McCandless Farmer, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025
Plane likely didn't include local teamster members, per Local 89
The majority of UPS's thousands of hourly employees that work at UPS Worldport are members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union.
—Keisha Rowe, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Nov. 2025
The search introduced me to a bilingual juggler in a Wild West show, an Irish teamster carting a scalped body, an ambitious Lakota lawyer, an angry wife who flees to Paris, and an angry husband who kills his wife in a Wyoming restaurant.
—Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
Now only Ice-T and Hargitay remain (though several crewmembers from Fazekas’ initial run on the show still work there, including the teamster who picked her up for her first day back).
—Scarlett Harris, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for teamster
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“Teamster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/teamster. Accessed 12 Dec. 2025.
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teamster
noun
team·ster
ˈtēm(p)-stər
: a person who drives a team or truck
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