catch the bus
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.55 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see catch, the, bus.
verb
To kill oneself deliberately; to commit suicide.
Example Sentences
- "I have the tools for catching the bus, just not the nerve. Soft suicide I can do. Take some pills, no problem. But never do I succeed that way."
- "If anyone's curious, here's a song my band recorded (totally raw... it never made it out of the studio). A friend of mine caught the bus, and this was my way of saying "Peace.""
- "Anyway at the end of my day, I decided to give him a call because the worse^([sic]) thing that would happen is that I would have to catch the bus."
- "this wasn't the first time he spoke of suicide--this was a suicide chat room after all […] 00sexboy00: tonights^([sic]) the night to catch the bus john! u been crying u pussy? ur slanty eyes are all red! john squeezed them shut and nodded. gabe wanted to reach a hand through the monitor to comfort his friend. but all he could do was type."