yellow dog
n.— «They are safer, larger and more advanced in every way than the widely held image of what are commonly called “Yellow Dogs,” the brightly painted, drafty and rattling, but reliable, buses of an earlier era.» —“Editorial: Bus Safety” Daily Journal (Tupelo, Miss.) July 18, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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