{
    "term": "lorry",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "image": "data/images/ve/vehicles_trucks.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a large vehicle for carrying heavy loads by road",
            "sensetop": "by lorry",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a lorry driver"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a lorry load of frozen fish"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Emergency food supplies were brought in by lorry.",
                    "contextForm": "by lorry"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A dozen people suffered minor injuries after a lorry jackknifed on an icy M62."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her husband was a long-distance lorry driver."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The lorry had shed its load under the bridge."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The motorway was closed by an overturned lorry."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a refrigerated lorry carrying frozen fish"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["big", "heavy", "huge"],
                "… of lorries": ["convoy"],
                "verb + lorry": ["drive"],
                "lorry + verb": [
                    "be laden with something",
                    "carry something",
                    "travel"
                ],
                "lorry + noun": ["driver", "load"],
                "phrases": ["a lorry sheds its load"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "goods that fell off the back of a lorry were probably stolen. People say or accept that they came ‘off the back of a lorry’ to avoid saying or asking where they really came from.",
            "labels": "(British English, informal, humorous)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈlɒri/",
                "audio": "lo/lorry/lorry__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈlɔːri/",
                "audio": "lo/lorry/lorry__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 19th cent.: perhaps from the given name Laurie."
}