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busting

adj
/ˈbʌstɪŋ/

Definitions

  1. Urgently needing to urinate. Alternative form of bursting.

    • Can you tell me where the toilets are? I'm busting.
    • The kid is busting to go to the toilet.

  2. present participle and gerund of bust

  3. The process of something being broken or exploded.

    • O, sir! the explosions, the blowings-up, the bustings, the firings! There was bombshells flying about as big as houses.
    • Don't you see, laddie, you're much too valuable to squander your energies playing the lousy short con, suffering the cop roustings and head bustings, the chump change scores.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for busting. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA