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long hauler
[ lawng hawl-er, long ]
noun
- a person, especially a truck driver, who travels over great distances.
- a vehicle for the transport of freight or passengers over great distances, especially a truck or airplane.
- a company involved in the transport of freight or passengers over great distances, especially a trucking company.
- a person who goes through a long period of considerable effort or difficulty, especially when committed to undertaking a job or task:
Without struggle there is no progress—we’re long haulers, not summer soldiers.
- Pathology. a person who experiences symptoms or health problems that linger or first appear after supposed recovery from an associated acute illness or active infection:
Long-haulers have reported chronic fatigue, muscle aches, difficulty concentrating, and other debilitating aftereffects of COVID-19, often lasting for several months.
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of long hauler1
Example Sentences
After seven months I wrote about what it felt like to be what was then termed a "long hauler".
Amy Watson in Portland, Oregon, got inspiration in naming her Facebook support group from the trucker cap she’d been wearing, and “long hauler” soon became part of the pandemic lexicon.
Both “long hauler” and “long COVID” were terms coined by patients — itself a unique phenomenon; diseases are usually named by the doctors who discover them.
Long hauler symptoms range widely from person to person.
By January, she went back to the hospital and was told she might be a “long hauler.”
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