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  • noun As much or as many as can fill a coach.

Etymologies

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coach load

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Examples

  • The Guardian has deployed a cast of several in order to bring you the top wedding news: Esther Addley is with the most ardent royalists camping out on the Mall, Adam Gabbatt has travelled down from Manchester with a coachload of revellers and is now tweeting his way around the capital.

    Royal wedding – live blog 2011

  • Also among the marchers will be a coachload of mothers and toddlers from Hampshire demonstrating against the closure of Sure Start centres in the county.

    Protest march against coalition cuts expected to attract 300,000 2011

  • They are like real ale drinkers whose favourite pub has suddenly been invaded by a coachload of lager drinkers.

    Random thoughts on you know what, and the Twenty20 attendance winners 2010

  • 'So then,' Chris said, 'this bloody big coachload of fervent psychos in orange scarves invaded the bar, and I thought then, "manna dropped from heaven", so I went outside where half of them were still in the bus, and I yelled at them that there was free beer down the road at a party, and I just got into the driver's seat and drove that damned jumbo straight through Grantchester's fence into the garden.'

    They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

  • It's a Tuesday morning, and a coachload of students from the Detroit country day school have just arrived for their 10. 20am performance of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – a new version, the fringe programme claims, set in an asylum.

    What are all these American high school students doing in Edinburgh? 2010

  • It seems that the Met are 'concerned' about the potential for violence over the weekend as demonstrators once again descend on London by the Socialist Worker coachload, in order to throw shoes at the Israeli Embassy. the British Board of Deputies are holding a (no doubt small by comparison) counter-demo on Sunday in Trafalgar Square.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • But looking back, the blonde bombshell was definitely on the side of Good - unlike those bloody Bratz, who radiate more Slytherin factor than a coachload of Malfoys on a family holiday.

    Twats and Bratz juliette 2008

  • But looking back, the blonde bombshell was definitely on the side of Good - unlike those bloody Bratz, who radiate more Slytherin factor than a coachload of Malfoys on a family holiday.

    Archive 2008-12-01 juliette 2008

  • The Karma Yoga (work) aspect of their daily lives is taken up with running a hospice, feeding and accommodating the thousands of pilgrims that turn up by the coachload throughout the year, and looking after their menagerie.

    Clarke's shoes 2007

  • A neighbour's funeral was attended by a coachload of such gentlemen from Aldershot.

    The Irish Should Not Be Able to Vote in UK General Elections 2007

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