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A large truck designed specifically to perform in monster truck shows, typically based on a lifted pickup truck with oversized wheels and modified suspension.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Literally, monster (“very large”) + truck (“motor vehicle”). Reportedly coined by Bob George, an owner of a motorsports promotion company, in the early 1980s, when referring to a popularly oversized truck named Bigfoot. Through semantic generalization, it came to refer to any of these oversized trucks.
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
怪獸卡車 /怪兽卡车
(guàishòu kǎchē)
— truck designed to perform in monster truck shows
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Chinese Mandarin:
大腳車 /大脚车
(dàjiǎochē)
— truck designed to perform in monster truck shows
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Finnish:
monsteriauto
— truck designed to perform in monster truck shows
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French:
monster truck
— truck designed to perform in monster truck shows
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French:
camion monstre
— truck designed to perform in monster truck shows
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German:
Monstertruck
— truck designed to perform in monster truck shows
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Greek:
τερατοφορτηγό
(teratofortigó)
— truck designed to perform in monster truck shows
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Greek:
μόνστερτρακ
(mónstertrak)
— truck designed to perform in monster truck shows
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Greek:
μάνστερτρακ
(mánstertrak)
— truck designed to perform in monster truck shows
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Greek:
φορτηγό τέρατος
(fortigó tératos)
— truck designed to perform in monster truck shows
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Japanese:
モンスタートラック
(monsutātorakku)
— truck designed to perform in monster truck shows
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Korean:
몬스터 트럭
(monseuteo teureok)
— truck designed to perform in monster truck shows
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Polish:
monster truck
— truck designed to perform in monster truck shows
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Portuguese:
caminhão-monstro
— truck designed to perform in monster truck shows
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Portuguese:
bigfoot
— truck designed to perform in monster truck shows
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Russian:
монстр-тра́к
(monstr-trák)
— truck designed to perform in monster truck shows
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Spanish:
camión monstruo
— truck designed to perform in monster truck shows
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Swedish:
monstertruck
— truck designed to perform in monster truck shows
