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| busting | |
| 1. adj. (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. | |
| 2. n. (colloquial) The process of something being broken or exploded. | |
| bust | |
| 1. n. A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders. | |
| 2. n. The breasts and upper thorax of a woman. | |
| 3. v. (transitive, colloquial, mostly, US) To break. | |
| I busted my cooker while trying to fix it. | |
| 4. v. (transitive, slang) To arrest (someone) for a crime. | |
| 5. v. (transitive, slang) To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state. | |
| 6. v. (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get. | |
| He busted huge air off that jump! | |
| 7. v. (US, informal) To reduce in rank. | |
| He busted him down to patrolman for insubordination. | |
| 8. v. (poker) To lose all of one's chips. | |
| 9. v. (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21. | |
| 10. v. (transitive, slang) To break in (an animal). | |
| 11. v. (intransitive, slang) To ejaculate; to eject semen. | |
| 12. n. (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation. | |
| a narcotics bust | |
| 13. n. (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb. | |
| 14. n. (sports) A player who fails to meet expectations. | |
| 15. n. (chess, informal) A refutation of an opening, or of previously published analysis. | |
| 16. adj. (slang) Without any money, broke, bankrupt. | |
| After months of financial problems, the company finally went bust. | |
