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tow truck

noun

  1. wrecker.



tow truck

noun

  1. Also called: breakdown van. wrecker.a motor vehicle equipped for towing away wrecked or disabled cars

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tow truck1

First recorded in 1940–45
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Example Sentences

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They submitted what the department called “staged photographs” of the damaged Bentley on a tow truck.

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“The officers and the tow truck operators failed to take any kind of inventory, or to see if there was a live person inside.”

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Police are investigating why a tow truck tried to nab a moving vehicle in San Francisco with people inside.

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Shevitz dived into the water himself and attached the front of the submerged vehicle to a tow truck that hauled it ashore.

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From Jan. 7 to 10, tow truck operators falsely claimed to be contracted by Altadena officials, according to a news release issued by Barger’s office.

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