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booze bus

booze bus noun: a police vehicle used for administering blood-alcohol tests (to drivers), generally a mid-size bus converted or fitted out for the purpose.

Noun

booze bus (plural booze buses)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A police vehicle used for administering blood-alcohol tests (to drivers), generally a mid-size bus converted or fitted out for the purpose.
    • 1982 December 2, Police 'booze buses' gear up for the start of random breath tests, Sydney Morning Herald, page 16, quoted in 1985, G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, second edition, Sydney University Press, →ISBN.

Forms of booze bus

pluralbooze buses

Questions about booze bus

What does booze bus mean?
Booze bus means a police vehicle used for administering blood-alcohol tests (to drivers), generally a mid-size bus converted or fitted out for the purpose.
What part of speech is booze bus?
Booze bus is a noun.
What is the plural of booze bus?
The plural of booze bus is booze buses.

Words near booze bus in the dictionary

  1. booze
  2. booze artist
  3. booze artists
  4. booze baron
  5. booze barons
  6. booze bus
  7. booze buses
  8. booze can
  9. booze cans
  10. booze cruise
  11. booze cruiser

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