Trucklers Anonymous

Trucklers Anonymous (TA) is an international mutual aid fellowship for people who truckle.

TA'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