(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.
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, .
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