busting
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Definitions ofbusting
- To break.
Example: "I busted my cooker while trying to fix it."
- To arrest (someone) for a crime.
- 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.
- An emphatic synonym of do or get.
Example: "He busted huge air off that jump!"
- To reduce in rank.
Example: "He busted him down to patrolman for insubordination."
- To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
- To lose all of one's chips.
- To exceed a score of 21.
- To break in (an animal).
- To ejaculate; to eject semen.
- The process of something being broken or exploded.
- (often followed by "to go to...") Urgently needing to urinate.
Example: "Can you tell me where the toilets are? I'm busting."
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