"monster truck" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-monster truck.wav Forms: monster trucks [plural]
Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{com|en|monster|truck|gloss1=very large|gloss2=motor vehicle}} monster (“very large”) + truck (“motor vehicle”), {{coinage|en|Bob George|nocap=1}} coined by Bob George Head templates: {{en-noun}} monster truck (plural monster trucks)
  1. A large truck designed specifically to perform in monster truck shows, typically based on a lifted pickup truck with oversized wheels and modified suspension. Wikipedia link: monster truck Categories (topical): Vehicles Translations (truck designed to perform in monster truck shows): 怪獸卡車 (Chinese Mandarin), 怪兽卡车 (guàishòu kǎchē) (Chinese Mandarin), 大腳車 (Chinese Mandarin), 大脚车 (dàjiǎochē) (Chinese Mandarin), monsteriauto (Finnish), monster truck [masculine] (French), camion monstre [North-America, masculine] (French), Monstertruck [neuter] (German), モンスタートラック (monsutātorakku) (Japanese), 몬스터 트럭 (monseuteo teureok) (Korean), монстр-тра́к (monstr-trák) [masculine] (Russian), camión monstruo [masculine] (Spanish), monstertruck [common-gender] (Swedish)

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