milk truck

milk + truck

milk truck (plural milk trucks)

1. (US, transport) Any of several types of truck used for road transportation of liquid fresh milk; usually, a tanker truck for bulk transport; formerly often a stakebody truck to pick up milk churns (milk cans); sometimes a truck to deliver milk bottles for home delivery.^[1]

   Hypernyms: truck, lorry < motor vehicle < vehicle < conveyance

Figuratively from the vehicle. Popularized through the video game War Thunder, which features many unprotected or lightly armored truck-like vehicles to play, like the soviet GAZ-MM and Sd.Kfz. 6/2, both visually similar to old milk trucks, but also sensitive to damage, like trucks loaded with glass milk bottles.^[2][3][4] Coined as early as 2014 when the game added playable ground vehicles, including said trucks, possibly coined by the content creator PhlyDaily.^[5][6]

milk truck (plural milk trucks)

1. (figuratively, video games, slang) unarmored or lightly protected truck-like vehicle, sensitive (fragile, exposed) to damage^{[5][6][2][3][4][7][8]}

   You need to protect me, i am only a milk truck.

   I see a column driving without armor support, only milk trucks.

   It's only a milk truck, don't waste ammunition for the main gun.

   No milk trucks were harmed during the making of this video.

A humourous term at its root. Used especially within realistic military-esque video games; generally emphasizing vehicles which can be taken out by small arms.