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A BUSTLE IN YOUR HEDGEROW 

"A bustle in your hedgerow," the enigmatic line in Led Zep's "Stairway To Heaven" classic, has mystified music mavens for decades. Hopefully, the following will sprinkle a scintilla of elucidation and edification upon this cryptic conundrum.

A hedgerow is a hedge that surrounds many estates in Britain.

Bustle, or noise or activity, used in this sense, means a disturbance close to home. Something's happening in your world!

It's just a spring clean for the May Queen.

Spring cleaning is an old domestic ritual cleaning meant to do away with the troubles of the past year and prepare for the coming year, and often includes disposing of old, useless things that have been lying around.

The May Queen was a maiden chosen by a village to represent the hopes and potential for the coming year. She was a symbol of beauty, spring and new beginnings.

So here, as an analogy, the lyric refers to getting rid of old and outdated systems in order to allow progress to occur.

OR it can refer to menarche, or the first menstrual cycle, signifying that a girl is coming of age.

OR, it could mean that you have a fuckin' bee in your bonnet!
No example needed.
A BUSTLE IN YOUR HEDGEROW by weave January 8, 2004

Busty Rule 

When searching anything on Google Images (without safesearch) applying the word "busty" will drastically change the results of the search, usually with gratuitous amounts of pornography and unrelated to the previous search.
Bob: I bet the "Busty Rule" doesn't apply to something like ramen noodles.
Oh shit...
Busty Rule by Busty pikachu October 4, 2010

Bustle Punching 

The act of entering a crowd with an erection and bumping into as many people as possible.
George was in a great mood. He just left a crowded elevator after cunningly Bustle Punching several women.
Bustle Punching by 12Free4 December 9, 2010

Busty Brown 

one who possesses massive tatas and flaunts them carelessly. on occassion will use them as a table for cell phones, pencils, drinks, etc. also opens and closes doors if hands are full
guy1: did you see that chick yesterday? her boobs were MASSIVE. guy2: ohhh yeh that was busty brown
Busty Brown by anime4me1490 November 28, 2009

BUSTY GLORY 

Refers to the breasts/cleavage of Mia Fey, a character from the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney series.

Origin:
On the GameFAQs Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations board, user Parakarry101 created a topic in which he imagined Phoenix asking Mia what it was like to be dead, an opportunity that was "RIGHT there in it's busty glory." (Mia is dead but is periodically channeled by her sister Maya and cousin Pearl, who are spirit mediums. Their clothes are too small for Mia, so Mia ends up showing her cleavage whenever she is channeled.) Many posters started posting "BUSTY GLORY" in capital, usually bold letters, which lead to the "BUSTY GLORY" fad.
Pearl's robes are too small to accomodate Mia's BUSTY GLORY.
BUSTY GLORY by G-Suck January 29, 2008

Hustle and bustle 

"There was a hustle and a bustle in the shopping mall, as loads of people walked by."

"I can't stand the hustle and bustle of big cities."
Hustle and bustle by LiterateBof November 7, 2013
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proper lad 

a lad that is such a lad that he is a proper lad
person1:did you see bob
person2: ya he was a proper lad
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Me: Poggers!
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Oblication 

A vacation, feeling more like an obligation, that involves visiting or staying with family.
So Joe where are you taking the kids for spring break vacation? We are going on an oblication to Boca to visit my mother-in-law.
Oblication by kimmerr May 5, 2011
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Surf Dracula Syndrome 

A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.

For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
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