1. A truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones)
   "They called for a breakdown lorry after their car broke down on the highway";
   - tow truck [N. Amer], tow car, wrecker [N. Amer]

Derived forms: breakdown lorries

Type of: lorry [Brit], motortruck [N. Amer], truck

Encyclopedia: Breakdown lorry