bus stop
noun1
A place where public transport buses stop to allow passengers to board or leave.
- He was waiting at the bus stop with her.
- "The streets are packed now," said a man named Pinky, as we sat talking on a busstop bench.1984 December 15, Scott Brookie, “Closing the Baths: Where Will It End?”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 22, page 3:
1 more example
- 2011, Rebecca Black featuring Patrice Wilson, Friday Gotta get down to the bus stop Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends
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Education The tableau used in short division, taught as if it were a bus stop with the digits treated as people queueing.
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Mathematics, Sciences Informal "⟌": The two-lined right-angled symbol used to separate quotient, divisor and dividend in long division and short division
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A disco dance popular in the 1970s and 1980s.
Preceded by "the"
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Hobbies, Lifestyle, Motor racing, Racing, Sports Abbreviation, Ellipsis Ellipsis of bus stop chicane.
- Synonyms
- ⟌, long division symbol, short division symbol, long division box, short division box
- Derived terms
- bus stop chicane, bus-stop flight, floating bus stop