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  • noun India A slum.

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Examples

  • Teh bloo dress iz kyoot — but ai iz way too bustee fur it. *sigh*

    gymnast kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • In the past, this has led to a lot of police corruption, as cops take bribes to declare the bustee an addict -- and one of the objects behind this bill is to reduce the opportunities for such corruption.

    A remarkable week for the Mexican congress 2006

  • In the urban areas, the right of the workers, the bustee dwellers, and the employees-middle class has been extended to the extent it is possible to do so.

    CPI(Marxist) criticism of the Revolutionary Maoists / Naxalites /CPI(Maoist) Abhay N 2007

  • In addition, we started a night school in a bustee area where college students visited and provided education to poor children.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Abhay N 2006

  • Close to Lucky Cherra Garden was a tract of bustee land on which some

    Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

  • Finally the bustee-wallahs agreed to stop operations and await legal judgment.

    Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

  • Deep away in the heart of the City, behind Jitha Megji's bustee, lies

    Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • At night, when all the City was still, came the walk under the evil-smelling boorka, the patrol through Jitha Megji's bustee, the quick turn into Amir Nath's Gully between the sleeping cattle and the dead walls, and then, last of all, Bisesa, and the deep, even breathing of the old woman who slept outside the door of the bare little room that

    Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Deep away in the heart of the City, behind Jitha Megji's _bustee_, lies

    Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Were you a self-proclaimed sports genius that busted various chops or was the chop bustee?

    Deadspin 2010

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