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open-top bus

open-top bus noun: a double-deck bus with an open, or partially open, top deck.

Noun

open-top bus (plural open-top buses)

  1. (UK) A double-deck bus with an open, or partially open, top deck.
    • At last the first glimpse from a bridge of an open-top red bus, and a noticeable darkening of the atmosphere from the smoke of London: then the increasingly dingy stations with double-barrel names, set amid what has always been to me the outstanding feature of the "Premier Line" approach to...1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704
    Synonyms:
    open-topper

Synonyms of open-top bus

Forms of open-top bus

pluralopen-top buses

Questions about open-top bus

What does open-top bus mean?
Open-top bus means a double-deck bus with an open, or partially open, top deck.
What part of speech is open-top bus?
Open-top bus is a noun.
What is the plural of open-top bus?
The plural of open-top bus is open-top buses.

Words near open-top bus in the dictionary

  1. open-sources
  2. open-sourcing
  3. open-textured
  4. open-toed
  5. open-top
  6. open-top bus
  7. open-top buses
  8. open-topped
  9. open-topper
  10. open-toppers
  11. open-wash

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