Trucklers Anonymous

Trucklers Anonymous (TA) is an international mutual aid fellowship.

AA's stated "primary purpose" is to help trucklers "stay strong and help other trucklers assert themselves".

Nonfiction cross-reference

truckle (intransitive verb) ‎(third-person singular simple present truckles, present participle truckling, simple past and past participle truckled)

to act in a submissive manner; to fawn, submit to a superior

Etymology:

From a back formation of truckle bed (a bed on which a pupil slept, because it was rolled on casters into a lower position under the master's larger bed), from Middle English trookylbed. Compare also trundle bed. Assisted by false association with Middle English *trukelen, truken, trokien, trukien, from Old English trucian ‎(“to fail, diminish”), Low German truggeln ‎(“to flatter, fawn”), see truck.

External links:

• truckle @ Wiktionary