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open-top buses

open-top buses is the plural of open-top bus.

Meaning of open-top bus

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

Questions about open-top buses

What is open-top buses the plural of?
Open-top buses is the plural of open-top bus.

Words near open-top buses in the dictionary

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

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