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busting

adjectiveverbnouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈbʌstɪŋ//

Urgently needing to urinate. Alternative form of bursting.

adjective

  1. 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.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of bustpresent participle and gerund of bust

noun

  1. 1

    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.

Forms

plural
bustings
comparative
more busting
superlative
most busting
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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).