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• n  a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
• v  expel intestinal gases through the anus

• Advertisers sure wouldn't; one reason they're urging the networks online is not to have their mutual-fund spots run next to a home movie of a baby farting on YouTube.
• The first ad was cringe-inducing in a way that made farting horses look like high-brow comedy.
• The Chinese can take this, Finch muses, because they are more nonchalant about bodily functions, such as burping, farting or even going to the bathroom an act performed .

• fart
• flatus
• wind
• breaking wind
• break wind

News & Articles

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• Limiting The Greenhouse Gas Impact Of Daisy, Dolly, And Other Animals
  Cows’ gas attacks are a major cause of climate change. What if we could breed a cow with fewer emissions? Ruminant animals, like cows, produce a lot of methane--almost a quarter of U.S. emissions annually. And methane’s a nasty greenhouse gas. By some estimates, it has 25 times the potency of carbon dioxide. Cows produce methane mostly when they belch (though also from farting). The gas is a ...
  June 21, 2013 - Fast Company Magazine

Quotes

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• Jack Black in Orlando Sentinel
  Look, a lot of him is me, obviously,Black says. "I haven't done multiple-character comedies that are all about farting. But I do fart in some of my movies, and I am fat, in, well, pretty much all my movies. So I understand this guy....
• Sutton Foster in Bloomberg
  I love working with Brian, so the farting and burping scene is a favorite,Foster said. "It's fun to fall in love with him every night. Yeah, I get to fart and burp on stage every night, and tap and be pretty. It's cool."
• Shilpa Shetty in Mirror.co.uk
  Shilpa added: "People might think living by all my parents' rules is odd at 31. But that's just the way we live in India, and I love that about my country. Hopefully viewers will see swearing, drinking, burping and farting is not cool - but being...