Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A station wagon in the shape of a small bus.

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  • noun A station wagon shaped like a small bus.

Etymologies

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From micro- +‎ bus

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Examples

  • For Ramón, carrying so many children in his microbus is a great responsibility.

    Kiva Loans 2009

  • You live here because the rent is affordable, because murderous drivers operate a cheap "microbus" service to town around the clock, because many of your friends live in the vicinity.

    Al-Ahram Weekly Online 2010

  • You live here because the rent is affordable, because murderous drivers operate a cheap "microbus" service to town around the clock, because many of your friends live in the vicinity.

    Al-Ahram Weekly Online 2010

  • You live here because the rent is affordable, because murderous drivers operate a cheap "microbus" service to town around the clock, because many of your friends live in the vicinity.

    Al-Ahram Weekly Online 2010

  • You live here because the rent is affordable, because murderous drivers operate a cheap "microbus" service to town around the clock, because many of your friends live in the vicinity.

    Al-Ahram Weekly Online 2010

  • I thought it was an advertisement for a new forthcoming version of the old VW microbus product.

    This is how we should talk to kids - Anil Dash 2009

  • Mr. Abad also bought a carcass of an old Volkswagen microbus — the stereotypical stoner vehicle — to use in marketing promotions, and hired an artist to craft a logo depicting a vehicle similar to the bus with a cannabis leaf prominently displayed on the front.

    Pot-Delivery Man Hits Speed Bumps Justin Scheck 2011

  • Volkswagen has a trademark for the microbus, wrote Jason Eves , a lawyer with Howard, Phillips & Andersen in Salt Lake City.

    Pot-Delivery Man Hits Speed Bumps Justin Scheck 2011

  • For example, this morning when I boarded a microbus to get to an English class I teach at a museum, the wide dashboard of the bus had an entire shrine devoted to this outlawed "saint".

    Superstition 2009

  • For example, this morning when I boarded a microbus to get to an English class I teach at a museum, the wide dashboard of the bus had an entire shrine devoted to this outlawed "saint".

    Superstition 2009

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