bus stop

Definitions

1. A place where public transport buses stop to allow passengers to board or leave.
2. The tableau used in short division, taught as if it were a bus stop with the digits treated as people queueing.
3. "⟌": The two-lined right-angled symbol used to separate quotient, divisor and dividend in long division and short division
   informal
4. A disco dance popular in the 1970s and 1980s.
5. Ellipsis of bus stop chicane.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Equivalents

Examples

“He was waiting at the bus stop⟳ with her.”

“"The streets are packed now," said a man named Pinky, as we sat talking on a busstop bench.”

“2011, Rebecca Black featuring Patrice Wilson, Friday Gotta get⟳ down to the bus stop⟳ Gotta catch⟳ my bus, I see⟳ my friends”

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