See touch cotton on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "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).",
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"text": "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!",
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"(intransitive, idiomatic slang, euphemistic) To struggle to hold back an imminent bowel movement."
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