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monster truck

noun

  1. vehicle typically styled after pickup truck bodies, modified or purposely built with extremely large wheels and suspension
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Wiktionary

noun

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.

  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.