six-wheeler

[ siks-hwee-ler, -wee- ]

noun

1. a truck or other vehicle having six wheels.
2. Citizens Band Radio Slang.
   1. a small truck.
   2. a passenger car pulling a trailer.

Word History and Origins

Origin of six-wheeler¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

Officers found an estimated 50 million tablets hidden in sacks in a six-wheeler truck they stopped at a joint police-military checkpoint on Tuesday.

From Washington Times

Specifically, Alana is operating a Ford truck, a hulking six-wheeler with the front painted an incongruously sporty orange and blue.

From New York Times

My father is lifting me from the overturned six-wheeler, out through the driver's-side window and into a sky filled with swirling dust.

From Salon

We will return to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the six-wheeler.

From Washington Post

KRQE-TV in Albuquerque reports the man struck an Albuquerque Walmart the day after the Black Friday shopping rush by dressing in a store employee uniform and using a six-wheeler cart to take his loot.

From Washington Times