Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US black) to have sexual intercourse.

1664		C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 30: Full oft when Smug was blowing Bellows, / Would she be trucking with good Fellows.
1936		Tampa Red [song title] Caught My Gal Truckin’.
1937		Cliff Bruner’s Texas Wanderers [song title] Can’t Nobody Truck Like Me.

2. to dance the truck, a contemporary popular dance; thus trucker n., one who dances the truck [‘that jerky yet rhythmic dance which combines a bend of the body, a tightening of the hand muscles and a slight strut with the legs’ (Baltimore Sun, 15 November 1935)].

1935		(con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham Act I: (He trucks across the room toward the Madam to the music of the radio) [...] sugar lou: Goodbye, boy! That sends me! [Ibid.] III ii: Let’s go, truckers!
1935		Cleo Brown ‘When Hollywood Goes Black and Tan’ 🎵 You won’t find them wing and bucking, / Everybody will be truckin’.
1936		Lil Hardin Armstrong ‘Doin’ the Suzie-Q’ 🎵 Yes, you’re truckin’! / Doin’ the shim-sham, / Then you swing on out and you’re doin’ the Suzie-Q!
1937		Cab Calloway ‘That Man is Here Again’ 🎵 When that man begins to swing, / Everybody goes to town, / Oh, he has that certain thing / Makes you Suzy-Q, then you truck on down.
1976		Cab Calloway Of Minnie the Moocher and Me 100: That year the whole country trucked.

3. to move, to travel; often in combs. with along, around, etc.

1935		Ted Yates This Is New York 19 Apr. [synd. col.] Hilton Jefferson [...] ‘trucks’ to the Quaker City to play an engagement.
1938		R. Chandler ‘The King in Yellow’ in Spanish Blood (1946) 49: In front of them, strutting, trucking, preening herself like a magpie.
1940		Louis Jordan ‘June Tenth Jamboree’ 🎵 I want to tell you a story from ’way back: / Truck on down and gig me, jack.
1956		L. Hughes Simply Heavenly I iii: I think I’ll truck along after her.
1969		‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp 124: You truck on down to the candy store.
1977		C. McFadden Serial 14: She trucked off [...] in a warm glow of anticipation.
1985		J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 11: Might as well stick a blow dryer in his mouth as drink a fifth of gin and start trucking across the desert.
1992		K. Lette Llama Parlour 78: You’re a helluva mechanic [...] The ol’ Ferrari’s still truckin’.
1993		(con. 1969) N.L. Russell Suicide Charlie 110: So I trucked on over to the heliport with my gear.

4. (US black) to leave, to depart.

1939		Herbert & Spencer Jitterbug Jamboree Song Book 33: truckin’ on down: to go somewhere, to leave.
1944		‘Jiver’s Bible’ in D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive.
1979		E. Torres After Hours 223: [I] went truckin’ on out.
1996		Eble Sl. and Sociability 81: Slide, truck, and split all mean ‘to leave’, and all can still be recognized and used, although they are not so current as peace out and Audi 5000.

5. (US campus) to move slowly.

1989

P. Munro Sl. U.

6. (US campus, also truck it) to hurry.

1997

Eble Campus Sl. Apr. 8: truck it – hurry.