busting

Urgently needing to urinate. Alternative form of bursting.

Adjective

  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.

Forms

more busting most busting

Synonyms

bursting

Derived

cache busting

Noun

  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. - 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...

Forms

bustings

Derived

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

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of bust