pickup truck
(chiefly, North America, Singapore) A light truck with an open cargo bed.
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Yep nothing screams “back in America” like a massive pickup truck with “NOT COMPENSATING” spread across the back window If you feel the need to spell it out…
This could probably be a good country song.! 🙂 she didn't keep your dog and sell your pickup truck, did she?
'Agility Is Key' Ford’s secret EV unit emerges from the shadows, still bullish on a new pickup truck despite market challenges via CNBC
Passed a commercial pickup truck this morning that said “Total Tool” on the side, and while I recognize that it’s the name of the company, you have to admit that “Total Tool” on the side of a pickup is a little nail-o…
"And I went to pick her up in the rain. But, before I could get to the station in my pickup truck She got runned over by a damned old train." David Allan Coe - She Never Even Called Me By My Name (The Perfect Country…
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(chiefly, North America, Singapore) A light truck with an open cargo bed.
On the same highway, I once absent-mindedly cut in front of this enormous jacked-up pickup truck.
“Yep nothing screams “back in America” like a massive pickup truck with “NOT COMPENSATING” spread across the back window If you feel the need to spell it out…”
— Bluesky· May 2026“This could probably be a good country song.! 🙂 she didn't keep your dog and sell your pickup truck, did she?”
— Bluesky· May 2026“'Agility Is Key' Ford’s secret EV unit emerges from the shadows, still bullish on a new pickup truck despite market challenges via CNBC”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Passed a commercial pickup truck this morning that said “Total Tool” on the side, and while I recognize that it’s the name of the company, you have to admit that “Total Tool” on the side of a pickup is a little nail-on-the-head, so to speak.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“"And I went to pick her up in the rain. But, before I could get to the station in my pickup truck She got runned over by a damned old train." David Allan Coe - She Never Even Called Me By My Name (The Perfect Country & Western Song)”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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