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Teo Posted 5 years ago
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Bust someone cooling out

He busts Shelia and me cooling out on the couch. (Lust of a Dope Friend, by Jerome Livingstone Jr.)

What does the above sentence mean?

  

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To bust someone is casual slang meaning to catch them doing something they shouldn't be doing. It is the same "bust" as we use for being arrested by the police. The writer modified the normal "chilling out", meaning "relaxing", to "cooling out".

  • To bust someone is casual slang meaning to catch them doing something they shouldn't be doing.
  • It is the same "bust" as we use for being arrested by the police.
  • The writer modified the normal "chilling out", meaning "relaxing", to "cooling out".
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To bust someone is casual slang meaning to catch them doing something they shouldn't be doing. It is the same "bust" as we use for being arrested by the police. The writer modified the normal "chilling out", meaning "relaxing", to "cooling out". So "He discovers me and Shelia relaxing on the couch when we should have been doing something else."

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