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- Spanish · calque ofcamionauta
- English todaytruckonaut
From truck + -o- + -naut, a calque of Spanish camionauta.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
truckonaut
Today it means: One of the Cubans who adapted a truck to act as a boat and used it to sail to the USA. Full definition →
Spanish camionauta