bus ticket
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1.0
- noun
- /bʌs ˈtɪkɪt/
:
billete de autobús
- Make sure to keep your bus ticket handy until you reach your destination.
- buy bus ticket
- get a bus ticket
- one bus ticket
Like, OK, all right, let's go buy a bus ticket.
- Like, OK, all right, let's go buy a bus ticket.
- And yeah, I just, I took the, I didn't have the money to pay for the bus ticket.
- And I had a got to transfer with the bus ticket and, and second time I got robbed was in a McDonald's.
Examples
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But have you seen the price of bus tickets lately?
Fiction book (2001) -
Then she extended a hand that held two bus tickets.
Fiction book (1997) -
Get yourself a bus ticket and go home.
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You got money for a bus ticket?
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Thanks, but I already bought a bus ticket.
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What is this bus ticket for?
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In response, I sent her a bus ticket.
Fiction book (1990) -
And I went home and bought a bus ticket to Toronto.
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So I borrowed money from friends, bought a Greyhound bus ticket, and headed south.
Academic text (2004) -
So, after four days on Inle Lake, we grudgingly purchased bus tickets for the grueling trip to Yangon.
Blog text (27)
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a ticket that permits a person to travel on a bus' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'bus' (a public vehicle) with 'ticket' (a document granting travel). This noun+noun compound is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and follows standard English composition, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
The name bus ticket comes from the simple idea of giving a small piece of paper to a passenger when they paid to ride a bus. The ticket showed you had paid and could get on the bus, so today bus ticket means 'a pass to ride a bus'.