busting — Dizionario inglese

Aggettivo

1. Urgently needing to urinate. Alternative form of bursting.

   Uso

   • often
   • followed by "to go to..."

   Sinonimi

   bursting

   Esempi

   Can you tell me where the toilets are? I'm busting.

   The kid is busting to go to the toilet.

Sostantivo

1. The process of something being broken or exploded.

   Uso

   • colloquiale

   Esempi

   O, sir! the explosions, the blowings-up, the bustings, the firings! There was bombshells flying about as big as houses.

   Altri esempi (1)

   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.