Definitions for busses

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busses bus·ses

Spelling: [buhs-iz]

IPA: /ˈbʌs ɪz/

Busses is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in busses (besssu).

Definitions for busses

noun

1. a plural of bus1 .
2. a large motor vehicle, having a long body, equipped with seats or benches for passengers, usually operating as part of a scheduled service; omnibus.
3. a similar horse-drawn vehicle.
4. a passenger automobile or airplane used in a manner resembling that of a bus.
5. any vehicle operated to transport children to school.
6. a low, movable filing cabinet.
7. Electricity.. Also called bus bar, busbar [buhs-bahr] /ˈbʌsˌbɑr/ (Show IPA). a heavy conductor, often made of copper in the shape of a bar, used to collect, carry, and distribute powerful electric currents, as those produced by generators.
8. Computers. a circuit that connects the CPU with other devices in a computer.

Idioms

1. throw under the bus. throw (def 57).

verb (used with object)

1. to convey or transport by bus:
2. to transport (pupils) to school by bus, especially as a means of achieving socioeconomic or racial diversity among students in a public school.

verb (used without object)

1. to travel on or by means of a bus:

verb (used with or without object)

1. to work or act as a busboy or busgirl:

noun, verb (used with or without object)

1. kiss.

Origin of busses

1825-35; short for omnibus; (def 6) short for omnibus bar

Examples for busses

The busses ran nose to tail and filled the road for a half-mile or more.

Only last week, a suicide bomber blew up several Navy busses here.

Hundreds of cabs, carts, busses, and waggons were passing the Clarendon.

Boston is effectively shut down--no trains, no busses, no schools--while police hunt for him.

All which, these men of the busses and Pinks will worthily supply.

Coaches, busses, trucks and private cars had been forced into service.

At last the busses were filled, and after the usual query, Is every one here?

The busses had stopped running and the cab-drivers were leading their horses.

As early as 1864 there was a half-hourly service of busses to Onehunga.

I expect he's out there by the depot with the busses now, come to meet me in his buggy.