cloudbust
nounEtymology From cloud + bust.
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Dialectal A cloudburst.
- A sudden cloudbust up in the hills during the night […] swelled the creek1929 June, Boys' Life, page 72:
- "Setting up for a cloudbust," Hickory said. "She don't aim to hit right around here, anyway."1949, George Palmer Putnam, Hickory shirt: a novel of Death Valley in 1850:
- Related terms
- cloudbuster, cloudbusting