Cloudbust

Origin

cloud + bust

Full definition of cloudbust

Noun

1. (dialect) A cloudburst.
• 1929, Boys' Life (June 1929, page 72)A sudden cloudbust up in the hills during the night ... swelled the creek
• 1949, George Palmer Putnam, Hickory shirt: a novel of Death Valley in 1850"Setting up for a cloudbust," Hickory said. "She don't aim to hit right around here, anyway."

Related terms

• cloudbuster
• cloudbusting