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fire truck

noun

Definition of FIRE TRUCK

:  an automotive vehicle equipped with firefighting apparatus
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First Known Use of FIRE TRUCK

1935

Rhymes with FIRE TRUCK

amok, awestruck, blackbuck, black duck, bushbuck, cold duck, dead duck, dumbstruck, dump truck, fish duck, fly-struck, hand truck, Kalmuck, lame-duck, moonstruck, mukluk, muktuk, potluck, reedbuck, roebuck, sawbuck, shelduck, stagestruck, starstruck, sunstruck, unstuck, upchuck, woodchuck

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