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touch cotton en · VERB

Etymology

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).

Meanings

1. (euphemistic, idiomatic, intransitive, slang) 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 the way home! 2011, Alan Moore et al., Visionaries (Vampirella Masters Series), volume 4 (graphic novel), Dynamite Entertainment, →ISBN, page 97:

Forms

Relateds

skid mark

Synonyms

turtle head · grow a tail · crown · prairie dog