noun
- people who submit obsequiously to authority or yield weakly to pressure; those who act in a servile manner
Usage: formal; disapproving
Examples
- The committee was filled with trucklers who never questioned the chairman’s decisions.
- He despised the trucklers who surrounded the powerful executive.
- The brave journalist refused to join the ranks of trucklers in the press corps.
- History remembers the resisters, not the trucklers who bent to tyranny.
- She called them trucklers for always agreeing with whatever the boss said.
- The opposition accused the legislators of being mere trucklers to special interests.