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Originally a guy who drove a team of horses; now the guy who makes sure the horses don't need to.

means A truck driver who transports goods for a living, especially one who belongs to the Teamsters union.

from From 'team' meaning a pair or more of draft animals harnessed together, plus '-ster' (an old agent suffix, the same one in 'gangster' and 'youngster'). A teamster was literally one who drove a team of horses or oxen pulling a wagon. When trucks replaced horses in the early 1900s, the word rode along — and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, founded in 1903 to organize wagon and delivery drivers, carried the horse-era name straight into the age of diesel engines.

name origin
literally means driver of a team of draft animals
union power
one of America's largest, over a million members
jimmy hoffa
its most famous leader vanished in 1975
modern scope
covers truckers, pilots, nurses, even zookeepers
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