food truck

See also: food-truck and foodtruck

English

Alternative forms

food-truck, foodtruck

Pronunciation

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Noun

food truck (plural food trucks)

A van (or wagon) that serves as a restaurant kitchen to sell hot food to customers.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see food,‎ truck.
1. A food delivery truck.

Synonyms

restaurant

cafeteria truck
cafeteria wagon
canteen truck
canteen wagon
cantina truck
cantina wagon
cantine truck
cantine wagon

Coordinate terms

food cart

Related terms

hot truck

Descendants

→ Dutch: food truck
French: → foodtruck, food-truck, food truck, → camion-restaurant (calque)
→ Indonesian: truk makanan (calque)
→ Italian: food truck
→ Japanese: フードトラック (fūdotorakku)
→ Korean: 푸드트럭 (pudeuteureok) (calque)
→ Portuguese: food truck
→ Russian: фудтрак (fudtrak)

Translations

A van that serves hot food to customers

Finnish: ruoka-auto, ruokarekka, ketterä kioski
French: foodtruck (fr) m, camion-restaurant m, camion de cuisine de rue m, camion de nourriture de rue m, camion de restauration (fr) m
Japanese: キッチンカー (ja) (kitchin kā)
Malay: kendera saji
Polish: barobus m, barowóz m
Portuguese: food truck (pt) m
Spanish: gastroneta f
Swedish: matbil (sv) c

See also

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English food truck.

Pronunciation

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Noun

food truck m (plural food trucks)

food truck; alternative form of foodtruck (restaurant on wheels)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English food truck.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfu.d͡ʒi ˈtɾɐ.ki/, /ˈfud͡ʒ ˈtɾɐk/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfud͡ʒ ˈtɾɐk/, /ˈfu.d͡ʒi ˈtɾɐ.ki/

Noun

food truck m (plural food trucks)

(Brazil) food truck