fiending
n.— «You’ve seen it, they mean it, now I’m fiending for a bum rush.» —“Rhyme” by gvbattle@elgreco.Princeton.edu (Gregory V. Battle) Usenet: alt.rodney-king May 5, 1992. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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