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school bus
noun
: a vehicle used for transporting children to or from school or on activities connected with school
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Sitting in the back of the school bus, Ricci smirked at the camera in one photo, wearing big sunglasses.
—Hannah Sacks, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
The biggest business in town is the Blue Bird Corporation, one of the country’s largest manufacturers of school buses.
—Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
No larger than the size of a standard school bus, the North Fork Voting House had one window, a screen door, and a leaky metal roof.
—Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2024
Or on city bus trips that might take up to two hours in each direction, because the routes aren’t designed for students the way that school bus routes are?
—Eli Hager, ProPublica, 12 Oct. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1908, in the meaning defined above
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“School bus.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/school%20bus. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
school bus
noun
: a vehicle for transporting children to and from school
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