monster truck

Literally, monster (“very large”) +‎ truck (“motor vehicle”). Reportedly coined by Bob George, an owner of a motorsports promotion company, in the early 1980s, when referring to a popularly oversized truck named Bigfoot. Through semantic generalization, it came to refer to any of these oversized trucks.

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monster truck (plural monster trucks)

1. A large truck designed specifically to perform in monster truck shows, typically based on a lifted pickup truck with oversized wheels and modified suspension.

Unadapted borrowing from English monster truck.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔn.stɛr ˈtrak/
• Syllabification: mon‧ster truck

monster truck m animal

1. monster truck (large truck designed specifically to perform in monster truck shows, typically based on a lifted pickup truck with oversized wheels and modified suspension)
   • 2023 May 25, “Monster Truck – wszystko, co musisz wiedzieć”, in intercars.pl‎^[1], archived from the original on 24 July 2025:

     Gabaryty Monster Trucków mogą robić wrażenie. Pojazdy mają ponad 4 tony wagi, 4 metry wysokości i niemal tyle samo szerokości (największy Monster Truck na świecie jest długi na ponad 10 metrów). Za połowę wysokości odpowiadają zazwyczaj same opony.

     The dimensions of monster trucks can be impressive. These vehicles are over 4 tons in weight, 4 meters high, and almost as wide (the largest monster truck in the world is over 10 meters long). The tires themselves are usually half the height of the whole vehicle.

• monster truck in the Korpus Języka Polskiego PWN [PWN Corpus of the Polish Language]