"park the bus" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-park the bus.ogg [Australia] Forms: parks the bus [present, singular, third-person], parking the bus [participle, present], parked the bus [participle, past], parked the bus [past]
Etymology: Coined by José Mourinho. Etymology templates: {{coinage|en|José Mourinho}} Coined by José Mourinho Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} park the bus (third-person singular simple present parks the bus, present participle parking the bus, simple past and past participle parked the bus)
  1. (soccer, idiomatic) To attempt to stop the opposition team from scoring a goal by playing extremely defensively and placing as many players as possible behind the ball. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Football (soccer) Related terms: catenaccio, kitty bar the door Translations (Translations): 泊巴士 (alt: pok³ baa¹ si⁶⁻²) (Chinese Cantonese), 擺大巴 (Chinese Mandarin), 摆大巴 (bǎi dàbā) (Chinese Mandarin), faire de l’antijeu (French), meter el autobús [Spain] (Spanish), meter el bus [Latin-America] (Spanish), meter el camión [Mexico] (Spanish), parkera bussen (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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