cattle trucked

English

Alternative forms

• cattle-trucked

Etymology

From cattle truck +‎ -ed.

Adjective

cattle trucked (comparative more cattle trucked, superlative most cattle trucked)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) Fucked (“irreparably or catastrophically broken”).

   Synonym: Donald Ducked

   • 1994 January 11, Marcus W. Bainbridge, “Re: PagePlus DTP + Win-OS/2 + DeskJet = General Protection Fault in GDI.EXE”, in comp.os.os2.misc‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Suggests to me that the Deskjet/Laserjet/PCL drivers are cattle-trucked. No doubt the IBM ink jet doesn't use PCL...? Or is it something more serious?

2. (Cockney rhyming slang) Fucked (“in trouble; in a hopeless situation”).

   Synonym: (ellipsis) cattled

   • 1999 July 27, BiffdaBoy, “Re: Neither am I”, in alt.sports.soccer.arsenal‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Its all very well until we get a suspension or an injury (god forbid!) and then we're cattle trucked. No disrespect to our stanbys but they are just not up to the job...whether that is due to lack of match practice or the fact that they are just not good enough will only be proved if they get a run in the first team.

Verb

cattle trucked

1. simple past and past participle of cattle truck

Further reading

• “cattle truck v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present