Definitions
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- verb To put (troops) onto a
bus . - verb To board a bus.
Etymologies
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em- + bus. Coined following the mass requisition by the British Army of London buses as troop carriers in World War I.
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Examples
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Instead of proceeding to the trenches that night according to programme, we got sudden orders to "embus" for Hill 60, in the Ypres Salient, to dig there under Royal
The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion W. C. C. Weetman
vanhool commented on the word embus
To get off a bus is to disembus.
May 9, 2023