busfulとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

busful (複数形 busfuls)

1. An amount sufficient to fill a bus.
   • 1965, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York: Bantam Books, published 1976, →ISBN, page 89:

     Riding among an exhausted busful of Negroes going on to graveyard shifts all over the city, […]

   • 2012, Ronald Vaughan Morris, History and Imagination: Reenactments for Elementary Social Studies, Rowman & Littlefield (2012), →ISBN, page 1:

     I had a busful of fifth-grade students expecting a field trip.

   • 2013, Serge Quadruppani, The Sudden Disappearance of Worker Bees, Arcade Publishing (2013; original French novel published 2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     Due to the arrival of a busful of Bavarian tourists, the noise in the hotel lobby was deafening.