bus stop noun5 •A place where public transport buses stop to allow passengers to board or leave.He was waiting at the bus stop with her. •The tableau used in short division, taught as if it were a bus stop with the digits treated as people queueing. •(informal) "⟌": The two-lined right-angled symbol used to separate quotient, divisor and dividend in long division and short division •A disco dance popular in the 1970s and 1980s. •Ellipsis of bus stop chicane. formsbus stops