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/ˈʃæ.ɹə.bæŋ(k)/ · noun
(British, historical) A horse-drawn, and then later, motorized omnibus with open sides, and often, no roof..
A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.
And full of colored dreams / Deep inside a rainbow / Lived Happiness Stan / In a small Victorian charabanc
The cumbersome though finely painted charabanc of the late James style is pulled swaying along by a frisky pony of a plot farcical and romantic.
Oh shit, there goes the charabanc! Looks like I'm gonna be stuck here the whole summer
Mum had worked there as a teenager and once recalled her duty of having to meet the charabancs that brought the well-heeled to the baths from Droitwich station before the war.
We return to the charabanc of a car to find a swarm of children dancing round it, clambering up the back, jumping on the step; the driver sleeps peacefully at the wheel, oblivious of their shrieks.
Just as I'm thinking my plan has failed an old charabanc of a vehicle slows down and starts hooting.
It was lucky therefore that I kept an eye on the quayside blackboard by the stern of the "Patmos Star", a charabanc of a daytrip boat that was to transport me and my bags to the tiny island of Lipsí, a short hop from Patmos.
Use charabanc when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Charabanc means (British, historical) A horse-drawn, and then later, motorized omnibus with open sides, and often, no roof..
Common synonyms include chara, coach, omnibus, jitney.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.
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