Meanings
plural dump trucks · alternative dumptruck
- A heavy truck, for carrying loose, bulk cargo (e.g., soil, gravel, grain), having a hinged bed that allows the contents to be unloaded onto the ground via dumping.
Specialised long-reach excavators with a clamshell grab then reach though the openings to lift the spoil to the surface, which is then deposited in articulated dump trucks (ADTs).
2023 March 8, Chris Howe, “Building the platform for Old Oak Common's platforms”, in RAIL, number 978, page 60Synonyms: dumper truck, tipper, tipper truck, tip truck
- slangA large pair of buttocks.
Synonyms: dumpy, cake, back, junk in the trunk, 'tocks, arse, arse cheeks, ass
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA heavy truck, for carrying loose, bulk cargo (e.g., soil, gravel, grain), having a hinged bed that allows the contents to be unloaded onto the ground via dumping.
nounA large pair of buttocks.
More synonyms by meaning
nountruck whose contents can be emptied without handling; the front end of the platform can be pneumatically raised so that the load is discharged by gravity
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Arabic شَاحِنَة تَفْرِيغ
- شَاحِنَة تَفْرِيغ (šāḥinat tafrīḡ)heavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Bulgarian самосва́л
- самосва́л (samosvál)heavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Catalan camió de trabuc, bolquet
- camió de trabucheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
- bolquetheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Chinese Mandarin 自卸車 /自卸车
- 自卸車 /自卸车 (zìxièchē)heavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Czech sklápěč
- sklápěčheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Danish dumper
- dumperheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Dutch kiepwagen
- kiepwagenheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Estonian kallur
- kallurheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Finnish lavakuorma-auto, kippiauto
- lavakuorma-autoheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
- kippiautoheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
French camion à benne basculante, camion-tombereau
- camion à benne basculanteheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
- camion-tombereauheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
- tombereauheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
- camion benneheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
German Kipper, Muldenkipper
- Kipperheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
- Muldenkipperheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Greek ανατρεπόμενο
- ανατρεπόμενο (anatrepómeno)heavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Hawaiian kalaka hoʻohanini
- kalaka hoʻohaniniheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Hindi डंप ट्रक
- डंप ट्रक (ḍamp ṭrak)heavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Hungarian dömper
- dömperheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Icelandic búkolla
- búkollaheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Irish dumpaire
- dumpaireheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Italian mezzo d'opera
- mezzo d'operaheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Japanese ダンプカー
- ダンプカー (danpukā)heavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Korean 덤프트럭
- 덤프트럭 (deompeuteureok)heavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Persian کامیون کمپرسی, کمپرسی
- کامیون کمپرسی (kâmiyon-e komperesi)heavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
- کمپرسی (komperesi)heavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
- دامپتراک (dâmp-terâk)heavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Polish wywrotka
- wywrotkaheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Portuguese basculante, caminhão-caçamba
- basculanteheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
- caminhão-caçambaheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
- caçambaheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Romanian autobasculantă
- autobasculantăheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Russian самосва́л
- самосва́л (samosvál)heavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Slovak sklápač
- sklápačheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Spanish volquete, dompe
- volqueteheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
- dompeheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
- camión de volteoheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
- tolvaheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
- dumperheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
- volquetaheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Swedish anläggningsbil, dumper
- anläggningsbilheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
- dumperheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Turkish damperli kamyon
- damperli kamyonheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Ukrainian самоски́д
- самоски́д (samoskýd)heavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Urdu ڈمپ ٹرک
- ڈمپ ٹرک (ḍamp ṭrak)heavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Vietnamese xe ben
- xe benheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Welsh lori ddadlwytho
- lori ddadlwythoheavy truck for carrying loose, bulk cargo
Cite this entry
dump truck. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dump%20truck
“dump truck.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dump%20truck. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dump truck,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dump%20truck.
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