cloudbust

A cloudburst.

Noun

  1. A cloudburst.
    • A sudden cloudbust up in the hills during the night […] swelled the creek - 1929 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:

Origin

From cloud + bust.

Forms

cloudbusts

Related

cloudbuster cloudbusting