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  • noun Plural form of double-decker.

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Examples

  • A bus — one of those double-deckers with tourists on top — went between us, splashing me with the habitat of a million spotted eels.

    Aloha Epiphany Ferrell 2012

  • It plans to add 32 buses to its fleet of double-deckers, along with 85 drivers, mechanics and general staff members primarily based in the District.

    Megabus to make D.C. its fifth travel hub Danielle Douglas 2010

  • They are awesome double-deckers with most of the passenger seating on the second level; the first level is for the bathrooms very comfortable, clean; there is even a toilet that has a changing area; the fact they are in the car and on the lower level reduces the amount of back-and-forth traffic and opening/closing of doors all night.

    Karen Rubin: Amtrak's AutoTrain Is Unique Way to Travel Karen Rubin 2010

  • Jamie Cox owned two of the three blocks of stores that made up Tucker's center, nearly half of the shabby double-deckers in lower Tucker and miscellaneous other pieces of real estate scattered through town.

    Broken Symmetry Angela Brett 2010

  • They are awesome double-deckers with most of the passenger seating on the second level; the first level is for the bathrooms very comfortable, clean; there is even a toilet that has a changing area; the fact they are in the car and on the lower level reduces the amount of back-and-forth traffic and opening/closing of doors all night.

    Karen Rubin: Amtrak's AutoTrain Is Unique Way to Travel Karen Rubin 2010

  • Mr. Barrow, a Christmas-pudding chef who goes by the name Knigel Knapp Knight of the UnKnown, is waging a fight against "the bendy bus," one-level articulated buses that have replaced some double-deckers in London.

    In the Longest-Running Joke in Politics, Life Imitates Farce 2010

  • Moving from the quiet, quaint double-deckers of England's comprehensive bus system to the jam-packed, noisy, arbitrarily concocted alternative in Los Angeles was, to say the least, a bit of a shock.

    Emily Henry: Tales From a Bus in Los Angeles 2010

  • There was a 45 per cent rise in accidents involving the No38 Victoria to Clapton between April 2006 and the same month in 2007, the first full year of bendy buses, compared to the previous 12 months when double-deckers were the main vehicle on the route.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • Mr. Barrow, a Christmas-pudding chef who goes by the name Knigel Knapp Knight of the UnKnown, is waging a fight against "the bendy bus," articulated buses that have replaced some double-deckers in London.

    In the Longest-Running Joke in Politics, Life Comes to Imitate Farce 2010

  • Now it seems that Bendy buses have been involved in more accidents on central London routes than the double-deckers they replaced.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Not a sheep 2008

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