food truck

See also: food-truck and foodtruck

English

A taco truck in St. Louis, Missouri

Alternative forms

• food-truck, foodtruck

Noun

food truck (plural food trucks)

1. A van (or wagon) that serves as a restaurant kitchen to sell hot food to customers
2. 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: 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
• Malay: kendera saji
• Polish: barobus m, barowóz m
• Portuguese: food truck (pt) m
• Spanish: gastroneta f

See also

• canteen
• cantina
• cantine
• chuck wagon

 

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English food truck.

Pronunciation

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Noun

food truck m (plural food trucks)

1. 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/

• (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)

1. (Brazil) food truck