bus plunge

Meanings

1. A phrase often used in filler story headlines in print newspapers, prior to the adoption of computer-aided typesetting and publishing methods, as it filled out the usual width of a column in the eight-column layout then prevalent in the industry.
2. A specific instance of such a story.
3. A similar example in other media of a filler story.
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bus, plunge. An instance of a bus falling from an elevated place.

Etymology

From bus + plunge.