What Does This Mean?
Korean online-game slang for being carried through a game by stronger teammates ("riding the bus"). The strong player is the driver who takes weaker players along as passengers, and 버스 태워주다 is the counterpart for the one doing the carrying. It is used for playing alongside a high-level or much more skilful player and gaining results one could not reach alone.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""I just rode the bus (버스타다) in that raid and cleared it without doing anything," he admitted."
LORE & ORIGIN
A Korean wiki page on the game term 버스 explains it as a high-level or highly skilled user playing on the same team as less skilled users, and suggests the image comes from early MMORPGs where one high-level player led several low-level ones through dungeons like a driver with passengers; it adds that the expression is often wrongly thought to be Korean-made but comes from English-language sports culture. That page returned HTTP 403 when opened, so these points come only from a search snippet. No dated first use was found and the verb form 버스타다 itself is not separately documented, so the entry is conservative. The existing entries carry and hard-carry cover the English carry sense.
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