booze bus

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booze bus (plural booze buses)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A police vehicle used for administering blood-alcohol tests (to drivers), generally a mid-size bus converted or fitted out for the purpose. [Introduced in New South Wales December 1982.]
    • 1982 December 2, Police 'booze buses' gear up for the start of random breath tests, Sydney Morning Herald, page 16, quoted in 1985, G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, second edition, Sydney University Press, →ISBN.

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