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Definition 2024
busting
busting
English
Adjective
busting (comparative more busting, superlative most busting)
- (often followed by "to go to...") Urgently needing to urinate.
- Can you tell me where the toilets are? I'm busting.
- The kid is busting to go to the toilet.
Translations
urgently needing to urinate — see bursting
Synonyms
Verb
busting
- present participle of bust
Noun
busting (plural bustings)
- (colloquial) The process of something being broken or exploded.
- 1874, A Royal Salute, in Belgravia (volume 23, page 180)
- O, sir! the explosions, the blowings-up, the bustings, the firings! There was bombshells flying about as big as houses.
- 2012, Iceberg Slim, Long White Con: The Biggest Score of His Life (page 12)
- 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.
- 1874, A Royal Salute, in Belgravia (volume 23, page 180)