semi-trailer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A trailer without front axle and with wheels only at the trailing end, designed to be pulled via a pivoting arrangement which also partially supports its weight.
  2. Ellipsis of semi-trailer truck (“a tractor-trailer or big rig, consisting of a semi-trailer and a semitruck pulling it”).

Pronunciation

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Word forms

semi-trailer semi-trailers semitrailer

Etymology

From semi- + trailer.

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