Bueller

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proper noun

A surname

“Does anyone want to go to the movies? ...Bueller?”

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A surname
interjection
  1. sarcasticslangUsed to convey that the speaker is waiting for a response or to chastise inattentiveness.

    Does anyone want to go to the movies? ...Bueller?

    3 more examples

    […] a church that reduces life with God to the exhilaration one would experience by watching paint dry. Bueller, Bueller, Bueller, Bueller, Bueller...

    2009, Doug Giles, If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going!, page 86

    "It's more about our relationship with the earth than it is about growing anything," I say. "And we are trying to respect our earth. Hello? Hello? Anyone there? Bueller? Bueller? But Gary is not listening. […]

    2009, Wade Rouse, At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life, page 188

    Anyone else online? Haikumom? I'm still waiting for that daily poem...Bueller? Bueller?

    2012, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Water by the Spoonful, page 56

Origin

(waiting for absent response): From the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986). Ben Stein's character, when doing roll-call, called "Bueller" multiple times with no answer, as Ferris Bueller was absent.

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APA

Bueller. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bueller

MLA

“Bueller.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bueller. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Bueller,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bueller.

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