Juggernaut

Quick meaning: Juggernaut is a noun meaning A literal or metaphorical force or object regarded as unstoppable, that will crush all in its path.

Meaning

A literal or metaphorical force or object regarded as unstoppable, that will crush all in its path.

More Meanings

1. (British, Ireland, sometimes derogatory) A large, cumbersome truck or lorry, especially an articulated lorry.
2. An institution that incites destructive devotion or to which people are carelessly sacrificed.

Example Sentences

[…] poor Johnny Tetterby staggering under his Moloch of an infant, the Juggernaut that crushes all his enjoyments.

Silently and gracefully I free-wheeled across the path of three juggernauts, [...] glided across the hard shoulder and came to rest halfway up a grass bank.

I know I swing me Volvo all around you market square. I know you think that lorry drivers, we just don't care. But the streets are so narrow, built so many years ago. They were built for horses' carts, not juggernauts you know.

The fact that the juggernaut of Indian English rolls inexorably on, largely unconcerned by the academic arguments taking place about it, is in itself an indicator of an endonormative force in the variety, and this can be traced historically.

Word Forms

• juggernauts

Related Words

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