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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Two children, ages 4 and 13, are dead and two others are in critical condition after being fatally shot at a truck stop near Angleton, Texas, officials said. Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2025 Accomack investigators tracked McNeal’s tractor–trailer to the US 58 truck stop near Emporia. Sarah Dahlberg, NBC news, 17 Sep. 2025 The Markham Plaza spaces include Shorepower truck stop electrification stations, allowing truck drivers to turn off their engines and charge equipment, which a toll authority statement said means cleaner air and less noise. Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025 Earlier, my father and I had eaten breakfast in a truck stop at Deacon’s Corner, on the outskirts of Winnipeg. Miriam Toews september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for truck stop

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1951, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of truck stop was circa 1951

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“Truck stop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truck%20stop. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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