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Definitions: Teamster |
TeamsterNoun1. The driver of a team of horses doing hauling. 2. Someone who drives a truck as an occupation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "teamster" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Occupations | Drives one or more draft animals to pull materials, vehicles, or implements, such as logs, wagons, grading scrapers, fertilizer spreaders, plows, or scoops: Jiggles, pulls, and slackens reins, and gives oral commands to control movement of team. May harness and hitch team to material, vehicle, or implement. May load and unload vehicle or manipulate levers, pedals, or holding devices to release material. May groom, feed, and water team and clean stable [STABLE ATTENDANT (any industry)]. May repair harness. May drive one or team of horses to skid logs from forest and be designated Snaker (logging). May be designated according to type of vehicle driven as Cart Driver (any industry); Dray Driver (any industry); Wagon Driver (any industry); or according to kind of animals driven as Horse-And-Wagon Driver (any industry); Mule Driver (any industry); or according to number of animals driven as Four-Horse Hitch Driver (any industry); Six-Horse Hitch Driver (any industry); Long-Line Teamster (any industry). (references) |
Transportation | A truck driver. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: TeamsterSynonyms: truck driver (n), trucker (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Director | Driver, whip, Jehu, charioteer; coachman, carman, cabman; postilion, vetturino, muleteer, arriero, teamster; whipper in. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Teamster |
| English words defined with "teamster": Cartman. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Wow! Eye of a tiger, mouth of a Teamster! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Teamster (1911) | |
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Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A teamster was eating at another table. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
teamster | 35 |
teamster union | 19 |
pension teamster | 6 |
teamster credit card | 6 |
net teamster | 6 |
teamster job | 5 |
teamster wallpaper | 4 |
brotherhood international teamster | 4 |
teamster local | 4 |
teamster logo | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "teamster"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shofer kamioni (Carter, lorry driver, trucker, truckman), karrocier (cabman, Carter, coachman, panel beater, postboy, postilion, Waggoner, Wagoner). (various references) | |
Arabic | سائق الشاحنة, سائق (carter, chauffeur, driver, haul, jockey, motorist, operator). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | член на отбора, шофьор на камион (trucker, truckman), животно от впряг. (various references) | |
Czech | vozka (Waggoner, Wagoner), povozník (Carter, Waggoner, Wagoner), řidiè nákladního auta. (various references) | |
Danish | vognmand (carrier, carter, driver, haulier, horse driver, road haulier, trucker), kusk (carter, coachman, driver, horse driver), foerer af spand (carter, driver, horse driver). (various references) | |
Dutch | voerman (carrier, carter, coachman, driver, horse driver, transporter), menner (carter, coachman, driver, horse driver, manager). (various references) | |
Farsi | کامیون ران , راننده درشکه بادواسب . (various references) | |
Finnish | valjakonajaja (carter, driver, horse driver), ajaja (carter, champion advocate, chauffeur, coachman, driver, horse driver). (various references) | |
French | routier, camionneur. (various references) | |
German | Lastwagenfahrer (lorry driver, truck driver, trucker, truckers). (various references) | |
Greek | ζευγηλάτησ, εργαλείο διάναξης (carter, driver, horse driver). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ע'לון (cabman, coachman, driver, hackman), "' משאית. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kocsis (carter, driver, Tranter, whip), fuvaros (carter, conveyer, conveyor, hauler, haulier, Waggoner, Wagoner), teherkocsis, gépkocsivezető (driver). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kusir (cabman, whip). (various references) | |
Italian | trasportatore (carrier, conveyor, loader, transport operator, transporter, vector), carrettiere (Carter, driver, horse driver), camionista (lorry driver, truck driver). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eamstertay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | carroceiro (carter, driver, horse driver, Tranter, Wagoner), carreteiro (Carman, carter, dread, driver, horse driver). (various references) | |
Romanian | cãruţaş (Carman, carrier, Carter, cartman, drayman). (various references) | |
Russian | погонщик. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vozar (haulier), vozač kamiona (trucker, truckman), kočijaš (cabman, coachman, tranter, waggoner, wagoner). (various references) | |
Spanish | camionero (truck driver). (various references) | |
Swedish | kusk (carter, coachman, driver, horse driver, Wagoner). (various references) | |
Thai | คนขับรถบรรทุก. (various references) | |
Turkish | yük arabacısı (drayman), kamyon şoförü (trucker). (various references) | |
Ukranian | власник запряжки, погонич (ploughboy, plowboy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "teamster": teamsters. (additional references) | |
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"Teamster" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: feamster, remaster, Transtrem. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "teamster" (pronounced tē"mster) |
| 5 | -ē" m s t er | seamster. |
| 4 | -m s t er | hamster. |
| 3 | -s t er | adjuster, administer, alabaster, ancestor, aster, banister, bannister, barrister, blaster, blister, blockbuster, bluster, bolster, booster, broadcaster, burgomaster, Buster, canister, cannister, caster, Castor, cloister, cluster, coaster, concertmaster, coster, Dempster, Dexter, digester, disaster, dumpster, duster, Easter, ester, faster, Feaster, fester, filibuster, fluster, forecaster, Forester, Foster, gangbuster, gangster, Gaster, grandmaster, harvester, headmaster, heister, holster, huckster, imposter, impostor, investor, jester, juster, keister, kiester, lackluster, laster, Leister, Lister, lobster, Luster, lustre, master, minister, Minster, Mister, mobster, molester, monster, muenster, Munster, muster, nester, Nestor, newscaster, oldster, oleaster, ouster, oyster, paster, pastor, pester, pilaster, plaster, pollster, polyester, poster, postmaster, prankster, protester, quartermaster, raster, register, requester, rester, ringmaster, roadster, roaster, roister, rooster, roster, royster, schoolmaster, scoutmaster, semester, sequester, shyster, sinister, sister, spinster, sportscaster, stepsister, taskmaster, taster, tester, thruster, tipster, toaster, toastmaster, transistor, trickster, trimester, twister, Ulster, upholster, waster, Webster, Wester, youngster, zoster. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-m-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: estreat, matters, metates, remates, restate, retaste, reteams, smatter, steamer. | |
-2 letters: ameers, aretes, armets, easter, eaters, estate, master, maters, matres, matter, mattes, merest, metate, meters, metres, ramees, ramets, remate, reseat, reteam, retems, retest, seamer, seater, setter, stater, stream, street, tamers, tamest, taster, taters, teaser, testae, tester, tetras, treats. | |
-3 letters: ameer, arete, armet, aster, eater, erase, ester, mares, marse, marts, maser, mater, mates, matte, matts, meats, meets, meres, meter, metes, metre, ramee, ramet, rates, reams, reest, remet, reset, retem, saree, satem, setae, smart, smear, stare, start, state, steam, steer, stere, tamer, tames, tares, tarts, taste, tater, tates, teams, tears, tease, teats, teems, terms, terse, testa, tetra, trams, treat, trees, trets. | |
-4 letters: ares, arms, arse, arts, ates, ears, ease, east, eats, emes, eras, erst, etas, maes, mare, mars, mart, mast, mate, mats, matt, meat, meet, mere, mesa, meta, mete, rams, rase, rate, rats, ream, rees, rems, rest, rete, rets, same, sate, seam, sear, seat, seem, seer, seme, sera, sere, seta, sett, star, stat, stem, stet, tame, tams, tare, tars, tart, tate, tats, team, tear, teas, teat, teem, tees, term, test, tets, tram, tree, tret, tsar. | |
-5 letters: are, arm, ars, art, ate, att, ear, eat, eme, ems, era, ere, ers, eta, mae, mar, mas, mat, met, ram, ras, rat, ree, rem, res, ret, sae, sat, sea, see, ser, set, tae, tam, tar, tas, tat, tea, tee, tet. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-m-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: attempers, smattered, smatterer, streamlet, teamsters, tetramers. | |
+2 letters: aftertimes, altimeters, arrestment, atmometers, impetrates, majorettes, martensite, mattresses, meltwaters, menstruate, mistreated, octameters, ratemeters, reattempts, reestimate, rotameters, smatterers, streamiest, streamlets, streetlamp, tastemaker, taximeters, terminates, treatments, trematodes, wattmeters. | |
+3 letters: altimetries, arrestments, demonstrate, departments, easternmost, entrapments, farmerettes, harvesttime, heptameters, heteroatoms, littermates, maltreaters, marionettes, marquisette, martensites, maternities, menstruated, menstruates, metacenters, pentameters, reestimated, reestimates, remittances, remonstrate, remotivates, restatement, restimulate, startlement, steamfitter, streetlamps, tachometers, tastemakers, termitaries, tetramerous, tetrameters, thermotaxes. | |
+4 letters: actinometers, aftermarkets, astrometries, bathymetries, demonstrated, demonstrates, dermatitides, dermatitises, determinants, detrainments, detrimentals, dilatometers, distemperate, engraftments, enterostomal, entrainments, entreatments, erythematous, estrangement, exterminates, fragmentates, harvesttimes, keratotomies, marquisettes, masterstroke, meristematic, metacentrics, metathoraces, metathoraxes, mistreatment, overestimate, premeditates, readjustment, reenactments, reestimating, remonstrated, remonstrates, restatements, restimulated, restimulates, semiliterate, spermatocyte, startlements, steamfitters, stenothermal, subtemperate, systematizer, temperaments, temperatures, testamentary, tetrahymenas, thermostable, thermostated, traducements. | |
+5 letters: accouterments, accoutrements, actinometries, advertisement, amphitheaters, ascertainment, concertmaster, counterstream, demonstrative, dermatophytes, determinators, dilatometries, enthrallments, entrancements, estrangements, exterminators, fermentations, forestallment, gastrectomies, hereditaments, heterogametes, intermediates, magnetometers, maltreatments, masterstrokes, materialities, methacrylates, methotrexates, microcassette, mistreatments, nitromethanes, nontreatments, olfactometers, overestimated, overestimates, overstatement, overstimulate, posttreatment, prematurities, premeditators, pretreatments, quartermaster, readjustments, reattachments, reinstatement, remonstrative, resystematize, retransmitted, semiliterates, spermatocytes, spermatophyte, subdepartment, systematizers, telemarketers, temperateness, temporalities, thermostatted, tracheotomies, underestimate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 61 6D 73 74 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . .- -- ... - . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01100001 01101101 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e a m s t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 0061 006D 0073 0074 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5471677985867184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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