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Definition of Busting
1. Adjective. (qualifier often followed by "to go to...") Urgently needing to urinate. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of bust) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Busting
1. bust [v] - See also: bust
Lexicographical Neighbors of Busting
Literary usage of Busting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Individual Training in Our Colleges by Clarence Frank Birdseye (1907)
"busting out" tested by business standards. Its evil effects. ... To us, at least,
the "busting out" of any member is of the greatest possible importance and ..."
2. Introduction to the Study of Sociology by Edward Cary Hayes (1918)
""Trust-busting."—It would be an- empty pretense to claim that our ... The talk
about "busting the trusts" of which so much has been heard is probably folly. ..."
3. The Foundations of National Prosperity: Studies in the Conservation of by Richard Theodore Ely, Charles Kenneth Leith, Ralph Henry Hess, Thomas Nixon Carver (1917)
"... a Solution of Trust Problems in the United States (1912, revised edition 1914)
the evils resulting from those " trust-busting" compaigns of politicians ..."
4. Angola: Arms Trade and Violations of the Laws of War Since the 1992 by Arms Project (Human Rights Watch), Human Rights Watch/Africa (1994)
"... Sanction-busting In addition to the May 1991 Bicesse Accords which forbade
the purchase of arms by both sides in Angola, on September 15, 1993, ..."
5. In to the Yukon by William Seymour Edwards (1905)
"A BRONCHO-busting MATCH. GLE.NWOOD SPRINGS, October 16, 1903. We left Salt Lake
City by the express last night over the Denver & Bio Grande Railway, ..."
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