charabanc
Britishnoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of charabanc
C19: from French char-à-bancs, wagon with seats
Example Sentences
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Briefly entertaining the idea that, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang like, it might be to get the charabanc going again, I ask what it's for.
From BBC
But let’s not punish Johnson for the mute words of a charabanc.
From The Guardian
To shake up tired old politics is one thing; to allegedly inflict bruises on a reporter quite another – a distinction that seems to be getting lost on board the Trump charabanc.
From The Guardian
One reason that the Trump charabanc now looks so chaotic was the departure in August of his top – and pretty much only – political adviser, Roger Stone.
From The Guardian
Not that I noticed it arriving as I did in driving rain and wind on a tractor-hauled charabanc called "the toast rack".
From BBC
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