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fit to bust

ADJECTIVE
crowded
Synonyms
STRONGEST
cramped full huddled jam-packed jammed loaded packed populous teeming
STRONG
brimming clean close compact crammed crushed massed mobbed overflowing stuffed swarming thronged
WEAK
SRO awash brimful chock-full dense elbow-to-elbow filled to the rafters full house full up lousy with mob scene sardined sold out standing room only stiff with thick thickset tight topped off up to here up to the hilt wall-to-wall
Antonyms
STRONGEST
deserted empty
STRONG
imprecise loose
WEAK
uncongested uncrowded unfilled

Example Sentences

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The audience clapped fit to bust, and the play continued normally.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2012

Last week the Skidroad was fit to bust with pride over Sexton Fitzgerald.

From Time Magazine Archive

But before he was even half way through Vieuxtemps' rhetorical D Minor Concerto, the Philharmonic's audience was shouting and stamping fit to bust the buttons off its stuffed shirts.

From Time Magazine Archive

The crowd were tossing peaked caps and laughing fit to bust .

From Time Magazine Archive

“Old Monkey he laughs fit to bust, holding his side and shakin’, and stampin’, then he starts singin’, ‘Tiger's Balls, I ate tiger's balls,' snappin’ his fingers, spinnin’ around on his two feet.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman