Definition
To be left in a disadvantageous position.
Of a bus: to be deliberately boxed in by another so as to lose the opportunity to pick up passengers.
In Context
- "Kathy says Much obliged, but what I don't appreciate about this piece of moral news is the pairing of successful writer with sexy hotshot lit prof, which leaves us pregnant librarians and failed playwrights sucking the mop."
- ""Now then, poppy-head:" — this to the conductor of a rival omnibus before us — "how long am I to go on sucking the mop?""