Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

like the back end of a bus

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.74 in modern English

Syllables: like the back- end of a bus
IPA

41

Scrabble Score

20

Letters

2

Syllables

15

Unique Chars

Meaning

prep_phrase

Very unattractive.

British usage; Colloquial; Derogatory

Example Sentences

"Not really fighting over her (puns aside). When you get a current beau and an ex, full of booze and testosterone, meeting up, their common interest isn't much of an issue in the subsequent display of machismo. I think she looks like the back end of a bus but, to them, she was a 'possession'."
"Must admit, I like the *original* 911s - the original, late-1960s ones back before they fitted bulgey wheelarches and silly tea-tray rear spoilers. They look much more like delicate, precision instruments compared with the later 'sledgehammer" versions [which IMHO are about as attractive as the back end of a bus]."
"You surely can't be comparing Alicia Witt with Sarah Fergusson? Alicia Witt looks stunning, while the duchess of Pork looks like the back end of a bus."
"‘You’ve got a face like the back end of a bus,’ he spat, his eyes raw and burning. Then he grinned, his yellow-stained teeth spreading across his mush [...]"
"As I once told him, being British, looking like the back end of a bus or weighing 30 stone, was utterly irrelevant to the posting i made"

Usage

Phrases

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Frequently Paired Words

face for radio face only a mother could love

Questions

What does like the back end of a bus mean?: Very unattractive.

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