booze bus

noun

A police vehicle used for administering blood-alcohol tests (to drivers), generally a mid-size bus converted or fitted out for the purpose.

First used Introduced in New South Wales December 1982.
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Meanings

nounbooze bus (plural booze buses)

plural booze buses

  1. AustraliaNew ZealandA police vehicle used for administering blood-alcohol tests (to drivers), generally a mid-size bus converted or fitted out for the purpose.First known use Introduced in New South Wales December 1982.

    1982 December 2, Police 'booze buses' gear up for the start of random breath tests, Sydney Morning Herald, page 16, quoted in 1985, G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, second edition, Sydney University Press, →ISBN.

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