busticate

[buhs-ti-keyt]

verb (used with object), bus·ti·cat·ed, bus·ti·cat·ing. Northern U.S.

to break into pieces.

Origin of busticate

a facetious formation from bust² + -icate, on the model of the regularly formed rusticate

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