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have no truck with someone or something Definition


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truck2
noun
    1. Exchange of goods; commercial dealings.
    2. Payment of wages in goods rather than money.
    3. colloq
      Small goods or wares.
    4. colloq
      Odds and ends.
      Example: Clear all the marbles and other truck off the floor
    (especially US)
    5. Market-garden produce, such as vegetables and fruit.
verb
    intr
    trucked, trucking
    1. To give (goods) in exchange; to barter.
      Thesaurus: deal in, traffic in, peddle, exchange, sell, push (slang).
Idiom: have no truck with someone or something
    To avoid them or it; to have nothing to do with them or it.
Etymology: 13c: from French troquer to exchange.



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