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What dose it mean, "Keep on trucking"?
Sep 2, 2016 3:40 AM
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This expression has more cultural significance than linguistic significance. To understand it, you need to listen to a song by the Grateful Dead - one of their most famous - called Truckin': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pafY6sZt0FE Secondly, you need to be familiar with Robert Crumb and a particular image that he created. Here is the Wikipedia article on Crumb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Crumb And here is the image - a quite famous image - that he created as part of a one page comic strip called Keep on Truckin': https://clinock.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/img5911.jpg As for what the expression means, just do a Google search. You'll get about 450,000 hits, and there are lots of sites discussing the expression's history (one view is that it goes back to 1930s depression era marathon dancing for money, as depicted in the film They Shoot Horses, Don't They?) and its meaning. Why do I say that it has more cultural than linguistic significance? I say that because just about every English speaking person knows this expression, but it is rarely used. Associated with the late 1960s and 1970s, I'm not convinced that it was used very much even then. It's well-known because of Crumb and the Grateful Dead, not because it is an expression one hears very often in real life.
September 2, 2016
It means keep it up - continue what you are doing.
September 2, 2016
We used it a lot back in the 1970s. I recall the term being resurrected with the release of the Smokey and the Bandit movie in 1977, or thereabouts. It's common meaning then was indeed 'Don't give up' 'Continue,' etc... We also used it when we wanted to say goodbye. Example: See 'ya later man. Yeah, Keep on Truckin,' dude.
September 2, 2016
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