motorbus

plural motorbuses · plural motorbusses · alternative motor bus

1. A motorized bus or coach.

   In the afternoon the air became black with locusts, and some of the women shrieked, sinking to the floor of the motorbus and covering their hair with traveling rugs.

   1930 October 11, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “One Trip Abroad”, in The Saturday Evening Post

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   “[…]a motor-’bus scorching round into the Square from the Haymarket was swept into the air, and shivered into fragments.” “Professor,” I exclaimed, “a motor-’bus!” “I know how impossible it must sound,” said Professor Henry Tellurin,[…]

   1912, Pearson’s Magazine, page 753

   The world beyond the sugarcane fields was remote and the village was linked to it only by villagers’ carts and bicycles, wholesalers’ vans and lorries, and an occasional private motorbus that ran to no timetable and along no fixed route.

   1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 4

   Synonyms: autobus, bus, coach, loser cruiser, motorcoach, omnibus