Meaning of cheese bus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A bus that transports cheese from the factory to retailers.
2. A yellow school bus, especially the smaller kind that is used to transport students with special needs.
   derogatory, slang

Examples

“Distribution and sales are maintained with the help⟳ of a "cheese bus", which covers eleven routes, each of which take⟳ two days.”

“The driver of each cheese bus (which, when loaded, weighs 10,500 kg) is a really skilled truck driver who has received sales training. The bus visits the customers in accordance with a fixed programme and the buyers take⟳ the cheeses they require⟳ direct⟳ from the bus.”

“Some of these plants have⟳ a special "cheese bus", visiting stores and other types of customers regularly.”

“He was singing what he had been humming earlier that morning, first quietly, then as loud as he could: If you ride⟳ on the short bus clap your hands If you ride⟳ on the cheese bus, clap your hands.”

“Then the cheese buses pulled up and all the kids except us headed for the bus.”

“For me the good old days included walking a long distance to all-black Crummell Elementary School (there were no “cheese” busses back then) and attending all-black schools up through university.”

“So anyway, William Esham and I would be in school, but we were not in the same clasroom, but we rode the same bus home, so when it was time to get⟳ on the cheese bus (in those days we were not assigned seats, but nowadays, you are), I would get⟳ on the bus but I would never talk⟳ to anybody because I didn't know⟳ anybody at that time.”

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