drunk bus
n.— «As a staggering girl’s stiletto heel punctures your ankle and the guy next to you throws up all over himself, the humid air becomes filled with an earsplitting, slurred version of the JMU Fight Song. Welcome to the Night Shuttle—or what students refer to as the Drunk Bus.» —“Warning: Passengers Subject to Drunken Singing” by Caitlin Hardgrove in James Madison University The Breeze (Harrisonburg, Virginia) Jan. 22, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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