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porcelain bus

porcelain bus noun: a toilet bowl.

Noun

porcelain bus (plural porcelain buses)

  1. (slang) A toilet bowl.
    • With a gut-wrenching heave, I grasped the steering wheel of the porcelain bus and shouted at the top of my voice for 'Hughie' to come and sort me out.2011, Fred Itfru, The Beer and I, page 10

Forms of porcelain bus

pluralporcelain buses

Origin of porcelain bus

From it being imagined that when gripping the sides of the bowl while vomiting into it that it's like a bus driver gripping the steering wheel of a bus (a bus steering wheel being roughly horizontal, as opposed to a car which has it up at an angle).

Questions about porcelain bus

What does porcelain bus mean?
Porcelain bus means a toilet bowl.
What part of speech is porcelain bus?
Porcelain bus is a noun.
What is the plural of porcelain bus?
The plural of porcelain bus is porcelain buses.

Words near porcelain bus in the dictionary

  1. Porcayos
  2. porcelain
  3. porcelain aorta
  4. porcelain aortas
  5. porcelain biscuit
  6. porcelain bus
  7. porcelain buses
  8. porcelain crab
  9. porcelain crabs
  10. porcelain doll
  11. porcelain dolls

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