[
UK
/tʃˈæɹɐbˌɑːnk/
]
NOUN
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a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport
he always rode the bus to work
How To Use charabanc In A Sentence
- All he had ever seen of Skipton was, as a boy, pressing his nose to the windows of a charabanc as he and his family passed through the town on the way to their annual holidays in Morecambe.
- The People's car: hundreds of day-trippers brave the discomfort of a fleet of charabancs at Plymouth in 1922.
- Once again he saw himself, as if in a nightmare, watching impotently as the bizarre charabanc of facts and conjecture hurtled on its predestined course. She Closed Her Eyes
- My mother was once in a charabanc that went under a railway bridge in Bedfordshire and then slowly tipped over and deposited them all into a ditch. Chez Moi
- By clever design, the same basic Sheppee body could be used as a charabanc to transport passengers or converted into a goods wagon.
- We set out at a cracking pace and met only charabancs overloaded with defiant voters.
- I never thought that anything could make Alma or the Kabul retreat seem like a charabanc picnic, but that day did, and I was through it, dawn to dusk, as no other man was. The Sky Writer
- Paying for a charabanc for a trip to London for a Rowen led protest. The Thursday Cyril: Rochdale Lib Dems Brickwall
- This was a spontaneous movement of ordinary people, produced partly by a growing scholarly interest in astronomical associations at the site, and partly by inventions such as the bicycle and the charabanc.
- You don't take off in a charabanc at 5.30 am on a Sunday lightly.