"skip lorry" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: skip lorries [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|skip lorries}} skip lorry (plural skip lorries)
  1. (British) A commercial vehicle, fitted with a hydraulic hoist, which delivers skips (for rubble, waste and general rubbish) to customers, and collects them once they have been filled for emptying at a landfill site. Tags: British Categories (topical): Vehicles
    Sense id: en-skip_lorry-en-noun-bdgdf-cX Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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