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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