truck stop
noun
: a facility especially for truckers that is usually by a highway and that includes a diner, fuel pumps, and a garage
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Authorities eventually caught him at a truck stop in Mississippi in November of that year.
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Audrey Conklin, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2025
While city ordinances would classify the business as a truck stop because two of the four diesel fueling spots can accommodate tractor trailers, the facility isn’t planned to have any of the typical amenities of a truck stop like showers or even places to park tractor trailers.
—R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025
Those two tractor-trailer-ready diesel fueling stations would make this gas station count as a truck stop under Aurora city ordinances, but the facility wouldn’t have any of the typical amenities of a truck stop like showers or even places to park tractor trailers.
—R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
Two sheriff’s deputies were struck by gunfire during a fatal shoot-out with a wanted man at a Virginia truck stop.
—Bailey Richards, People.com, 29 Mar. 2025
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Audrey Conklin, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2025
While city ordinances would classify the business as a truck stop because two of the four diesel fueling spots can accommodate tractor trailers, the facility isn’t planned to have any of the typical amenities of a truck stop like showers or even places to park tractor trailers.
—R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025
Those two tractor-trailer-ready diesel fueling stations would make this gas station count as a truck stop under Aurora city ordinances, but the facility wouldn’t have any of the typical amenities of a truck stop like showers or even places to park tractor trailers.
—R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
Two sheriff’s deputies were struck by gunfire during a fatal shoot-out with a wanted man at a Virginia truck stop.
—Bailey Richards, People.com, 29 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for truck stop
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“Truck stop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truck%20stop. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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