Truck
Michael from Douglas Lake,
Michigan, asked about a word used in the movie Rio Bravo. He said that it was used in a sentence that
ran something like, “Take care of your own truck.”
Curious to see if I could find
the line in its original context, I ran a google search. To my astonishment, I
discovered a web site that contains perhaps hundreds of move script
transcripts. It’s called Drew’s Script-O-Rama, and it has a transcript of Rio Bravo’s dialogue.
Here is the relevant passage:
Stumpy,
where do you keep the deputy sheriff badges?
In the right-hand drawer there.
You know where that book is, the one with the
oath?
No! lf you can't take care of your own truck
don't look for me to do it.
In context, it’s apparent that it means
belongings. The Oxford English Dictionary
defines it as “small articles of a
miscellaneous character; sundries; stuff; chiefly in depreciative use: odds and
ends; things of little value; trash, rubbish.” The first example cited dates to 1785.
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