bus stop

bus stop (plural bus stops)

1. A place where public transport buses stop to allow passengers to board or leave.
   • 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 definite article) A disco dance popular in the 1970s and 1980s.
5. (motor racing) Ellipsis of bus stop chicane.

• (motorsports): busstop

• (⟌): ⟌, long division symbol, short division symbol, long division box, short division box

• (motorsports): chicane, curve, turn

• bus stop chicane
• bus-stop flight

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