porcelain bus

English

Etymology

From it being imagined that when gripping the sides of the bowl while vomiting into it that it's like a bus driver gripping the steering wheel of a bus (a bus steering wheel being roughly horizontal, as opposed to a car which has it up at an angle).

Pronunciation

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Noun

porcelain bus (plural porcelain buses)

1. (slang) A toilet bowl.
   • 2011, Fred Itfru, The Beer and I, page 10:

     With a gut-wrenching heave, I grasped the steering wheel of the porcelain bus and shouted at the top of my voice for 'Hughie' to come and sort me out.