porcelain bus

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Definition of porcelain bus in English English dictionary

A toilet bowl

2005: DON'T trade the tour bus for the porcelain bus. You can eat, drink and be merry – not sorry – when overseas. — Escape Magazine travel advice.

Related Terms

drive the porcelain bus

To vomit, especially while drunk or hung over

Hyphenation

porce·lain bus

Turkish pronunciation

pôrsılın bʌs

Pronunciation

/ˈpôrsələn ˈbəs/ /ˈpɔːrsələn ˈbʌs/

Etymology

() 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).