bus-left

bus-left
 other.— «“Bus-left” Also from SE Georgia, the condition of having missed the school bus. “Latrell, why you so late to school?” “I overslept and got bus-left.”» —by John Reed in Hazelhurst, Ga. Private email Sept. 2, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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