truck stop

noun

: a facility especially for truckers that is usually by a highway and that includes a diner, fuel pumps, and a garage

Examples of truck stop in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There were similar incidents also reported at a truck stop in Benton County in the Holladay/Sugar Tree area. —Christina Shaw, Fox News, 3 Oct. 2024

Authorities eventually caught him at a truck stop in Mississippi in November of that year. —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

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1951, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for truck stop

• atop
• backdrop
• backstop
• bebop
• blacktop
• bookshop
• clatsop
• desktop
• eavesdrop
• estop
• hardtop
• hilltop