touch cotton
touch cotton verb: to struggle to hold back an imminent bowel movement.
Verb
touch cotton (third-person singular simple present touches cotton, present participle touching cotton, simple past and past participle touched cotton)
- To struggle to hold back an imminent bowel movement.
- After 3 hours at the all-you-can-eat buffet I was totally touching cotton.
- Once these kids come here today trick or treating, they are gonna get a mouthful — and a pant full ^([sic]) — / Crappin ^([sic]) their shorts all the way into next week... teach them to screw with their elders... they’ll be touching cotton / Yeah those little bastards will be prairie dogging it all...2011, Alan Moore et al., Visionaries (Vampirella Masters Series), volume 4 (graphic novel), Dynamite Entertainment, →ISBN, page 97
- Synonyms:
- crown, grow a tail, prairie dog, turtle head
Synonyms of touch cotton
Forms of touch cotton
| third-person singular present | touches cotton |
|---|---|
| present participle | touching cotton |
| past participle | touched cotton |
| past | touched cotton |
Origin of touch cotton
Referring to the emerging tip of an urgent bowel movement getting in contact with the inner fabric of a pair of underpants (made of cotton — the commonest material — or otherwise).
Questions about touch cotton
- What does touch cotton mean?
- Touch cotton means to struggle to hold back an imminent bowel movement.
- What part of speech is touch cotton?
- Touch cotton is a verb.
- What is the past tense of touch cotton?
- The past tense of touch cotton is touched cotton.
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