trucking
n.— «The investigation concerns misreporting catch from one fishing area to another, a practice commonly known in the fishing industry as “trucking,” Mr Green said.» —“MFish seizes second Korean fishing vessel in two weeks” New Zealand Herald (Auckland) Dec. 20, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
A magnificent new book celebrates the richness and diversity of 450 years of written and spoken English in what is now the United States. It’s called The People’s Tongue, and it’s a sumptuous collection of essays, letters, poems...
Brian from Lafayette, Indiana, wonders why chicken is abbreviated CHX in the restaurant industry. Using X as a substitute or shortener has a long history. Medieval scribes sometimes drew a line through the final stroke of an abbreviated word. This...