battlebus

/ ˈbætəlˌbʌs /

noun

1. the coach that transports politicians and their advisers round the country during an election campaign

Example Sentences

Johnson deployed all of his formidable campaigning skills, although he came in for heavy criticism for the claim - printed on the side of a battlebus - that the UK sent the EU £350m a week, which did not take into account the UK's rebate.

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The Daily Mirror was also excluded from the Conservative battlebus during the election campaign.

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As Jeremy Corbyn sped through Stroud in Labour’s battlebus on Monday, he was asked whether it had been hard to land a blow on serial liar Boris Johnson during the six-week election campaign.

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But I can’t even photograph the prime minister getting off his battlebus without showing their core message of “getting Brexit done”.

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Even senior party sources concede that the wonky black-and-white branding, particularly of their battlebus, may be a mistake – one tweet observed: “I didn’t know you could print a Word document straight on to a bus” – and that stripes only made sense when the party’s nickname was “TIG-ers”.

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