bus stop

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A bus stop in Poland.

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bus stop (plural bus stops)

  1. A place where public transport buses stop to allow passengers to board or leave.
    • 1984 December 15, Scott Brookie, “Closing the Baths: Where Will It End?”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 22, page 3:
      "The streets are packed now," said a man named Pinky, as we sat talking on a busstop bench.
    • 2011, Rebecca Black featuring Patrice Wilson, Friday
      Gotta get down to the bus stop
      Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends
  2. (education) The tableau used in short division, taught as if it were a bus stop with the digits treated as people queueing.
  3. (mathematics, informal) "": The two-lined right-angled symbol used to separate quotient, divisor and dividend in long division and short division
  4. (preceded by "the") A disco dance popular in the 1970s and 1980s.
  5. (motor racing) Ellipsis of bus stop chicane.

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