Answer to "Be busy" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word HUM which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2015.

Be busy crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
HUM	71 %	3
LABOR	14 %	5
STIR	14 %	4

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Be busy

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• work
• occupy
• engage
• pull
• gettin
• wield
• take to
• undertake
• collect
• frame
• pull off
• take up

Crossword Answer definitions

HUM interjection

1. Indicating thinking or pondering.
2. A demand for an answer to a question.

HUM noun

1. A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed.
2. An often indistinct sound resembling human humming.
3. Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive.
4. Unpleasant odour.
5. An imposition or hoax; humbug.
6. A kind of strong drink.
7. A phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people.

HUM verb

1. To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.
2. To express by humming.
3. To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly
4. To buzz, be busily active like a beehive
5. To produce low sounds which blend continuously
6. To reek, smell bad.
7. To flatter by approving; to cajole; to deceive or impose upon; to humbug.

HUM interjection

1. An expression used to show contentment for something
2. An expression used to show thought or reflection
3. An expression used to show being muffled or not able to speak clearly, as well as "mmph".
4. Yes.

HUM interjection

1. Expression of hesitation, uncertainty or space filler in conversation. See uh.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result HUM

• Drone
• Ho follower
• Motor's sound
• Relative to 10-Down, Jackson 5 song in which the lyrics explain that it has no lyrics
• Running sound
• Be busily active
• Buzz
• Run smoothly
• Unwanted speaker sound
• Whir

More clues leading to the result LABOR

• Party in England
• Gompers' group
• It has many contractions
• What's gone into before delivering
• Delivery challenge
• Lamaze class subject
• Huff and puff
• United workers
• Proletariat
• Serf's lot

More clues leading to the result STIR

• Begin to move
• Brouhaha
• Combine
• Cooking direction
• Mix up
• Ruckus
• Tend to the batter
• Tend to the sauce
• Use a swizzle stick
• __-crazy