Meaning of busful | Babel Free

Definitions

An amount sufficient to fill a bus.

Equivalents

Examples

“The trip was made Friday in two bouncing busesful, under the chaperonage and direction of Mr. CYRUS DANIEL.”

“Among the 50,000 were busesful from Coegnant, Caerau and Cwmdu Collieries in Maesteg and delegates from pits in the Afan and Garw Valleys.”

“Riding among an exhausted busful of Negroes going on to graveyard shifts all over the city, […]”

“We had dissolved, busesful of us, to the beach and the hypermarket, to the Boutique Diana, le Royal Baby, the Hotel Folkestone or the Café l’Hovercraft.”

“Today the bridge was at its best, Annie thought, showing off for the tourists—there were at least ten busesful in sight.”

“I had a busful of fifth-grade students expecting a field trip.”

“Due to the arrival of a busful of Bavarian tourists, the noise in the hotel lobby was deafening.”

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