busting

adj, noun — 2 senses

busting

adj

/ˈbʌstɪŋ/

1

Often, Followed by "to go to..." 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.

Synonyms: bursting
Derived terms: cache busting

busting

noun

1

Colloquial 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.1874, “A Royal Salute”, in Belgravia, volume 23, page 180:
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.2012, Iceberg Slim, Long White Con: The Biggest Score of His Life, page 12:

Derived terms: ballbusting, blockbusting, chartbusting, cloudbusting, crimebusting, dambusting, doorbusting, gangbusting, ghostbusting, mutton busting, quackbusting, racketbusting, sodbusting, stressbusting, swampbusting, tankbusting, trend-busting, trustbusting, unionbusting

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