bendy bus

noun

An articulated bus.

Meanings

nounbendy bus (plural bendy buses)

plural bendy buses

  1. informalAn articulated bus.

    At the same time, Johnson scrapped the so-called “bendy buses,” long, articulated buses that Johnson claimed were unsuitable for London roads and allowed people to avoid paying fares.

    [2022, Victoria R. Williams, London: Geography, History, and Culture, Bloomsbury, →ISBN
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    Mr Johnson is proud that London will soon be free of these buses. Conservative Home, a website, quotes him as saying at a fringe meeting at the Conservative conference on Monday night, that: “The last breeding pair of bendy buses will be despatched this year to the happy hunting ground of some Scandinavian airport.”

    2011 October 6, Boris Johnson, quotee, “Bus conduct”, in The Economist, →ISSN

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