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busful

noun

Etymology

From bus + -ful.

Definitions

  1. An amount sufficient to fill a bus.

    • 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, […]

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