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{
"term": "lorry",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"image": "data/images/ve/vehicles_trucks.png",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a large vehicle for carrying heavy loads by road",
"sensetop": "by lorry",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a lorry driver"
},
{
"text": "a lorry load of frozen fish"
},
{
"text": "Emergency food supplies were brought in by lorry.",
"contextForm": "by lorry"
},
{
"text": "A dozen people suffered minor injuries after a lorry jackknifed on an icy M62."
},
{
"text": "Her husband was a long-distance lorry driver."
},
{
"text": "The lorry had shed its load under the bridge."
},
{
"text": "The motorway was closed by an overturned lorry."
},
{
"text": "a refrigerated lorry carrying frozen fish"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["big", "heavy", "huge"],
"… of lorries": ["convoy"],
"verb + lorry": ["drive"],
"lorry + verb": [
"be laden with something",
"carry something",
"travel"
],
"lorry + noun": ["driver", "load"],
"phrases": ["a lorry sheds its load"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "goods that fell off the back of a lorry were probably stolen. People say or accept that they came ‘off the back of a lorry’ to avoid saying or asking where they really came from.",
"labels": "(British English, informal, humorous)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈlɒri/",
"audio": "lo/lorry/lorry__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈlɔːri/",
"audio": "lo/lorry/lorry__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 19th cent.: perhaps from the given name Laurie."
}