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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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"(intransitive, idiomatic slang, euphemistic) To struggle to hold back an imminent bowel movement."
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