Street voices
Haley
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United States
"That food was bussin. I need another plate. Bussin means extremely good, like really yummy, or like especially with food, especially with food or drinks or something like that. I'm from the United States. I'm American."
What it means
Used when something is insanely good, especially food. If a meal’s got everybody going quiet, licking sauce off their fingers, or diving in for seconds, it’s bussin. It spread from AAVE into mainstream internet slang, and now people use it for other stuff too, but food is still its home turf. If you say bussin bussin, you mean ridiculously good.
Usage examples
"Bro, this Lou Malnati’s deep dish is bussin bussin. Grab a slice before it’s gone and we’ll hit the lakefront after, yeah?"
"My aunt's mac and cheese was so bussin that the whole table went quiet and went back for thirds without a word."
"These tacos are bussin, no lie. I was just gonna have one and now I'm four deep."
"Grandma brought out the peach cobbler and the whole cookout went silent. That thing was bussin bussin."
Where it comes from
It comes out of AAVE, where bussin has long been used for food that tastes really good. The wider mainstream boost came later through social media, especially TikTok, but the word wasn’t born there. It was already alive in Black speech before the internet grabbed it and started spraying it everywhere.
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