Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To smash or break, especially forcefully.
- intransitive verb To render inoperable or unusable.
- intransitive verb To cause to come to an end; break up.
- intransitive verb To break or tame (a horse).
- intransitive verb To cause to become bankrupt or short of money.
- intransitive verb To place under arrest.
- intransitive verb To make a police raid on.
- intransitive verb Slang To reduce in rank; demote.
- intransitive verb Slang To hit; punch.
- intransitive verb To undergo breakage; become broken.
- intransitive verb To burst; break.
- intransitive verb To become bankrupt or short of money.
- intransitive verb Games To lose at blackjack by exceeding a score of 21.
- noun A failure; a flop.
- noun A time or period of widespread financial depression.
- noun Slang A punch; a blow.
- noun Informal A spree.
- noun An arrest.
- noun A raid.
- idiom (bust a nut) To have an orgasm.
- idiom (ass/balls) /butt) To make a strenuous effort; work very hard.
- idiom Vulgar Slang (bust (someone's) balls/chops) To make extreme or unreasonable demands of someone.
- idiom (bust (someone's) balls/chops) To harass or scold someone.
- idiom (go bust) To go bankrupt.
- noun A sculpture representing a person's head, shoulders, and upper chest.
- noun A woman's breasts.
- noun The human chest.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A dialectal or vulgar form of
burst . - noun A dialectal or vulgar form of
burst . - noun Specifically, a spree: as, to go on a bust.
- noun The chest, thorax, or breast; the trunk of the human body above the waist.
- noun In sculpture, the figure of a person in relief, showing only the head, shoulders, and breast.
- To put a tar-mark upon (sheep).
- noun A tar-mark on sheep.
- To break to the saddle, as an intractable bronco.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.
- noun The portion of the human figure included between the head and waist, whether in statuary or in the person; the chest or thorax; the upper part of the trunk of the body.
- noun A woman's bosom{2}.
- transitive verb informal To arrest, for committing a crime; -- often used in the passive.
- intransitive verb informal To break or burst.
- intransitive verb (Card Playing) In blackjack, to draw a card that causes one's total to exceed twenty-one.
- intransitive verb To go bankrupt.
- intransitive verb to go bankrupt.
- intransitive verb or collapse from the effort; -- used in phrases expressing determination to do something
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
sculptural portrayal of a person'shead andshoulders
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I think this bust would have been better as a full-size statue or even a diorama, but if a bust is the only way I can bring this slightly obscure Disney baddie home, so be it.
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Included with this bust is a separate Central City manhole cover, to be placed on or near the bust by the consumer.
Dark Horse Solicitations for May 2008 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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But the other thing people need to watch out for is what I call the bust-out cell phone bill.
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So, making with my shiny zoobies, I ittied a bit nearer to her, taking my time, and on the way I saw on a like sideboard a lovely little veshch, the love - liest malenky veshch any malchick fond of music like myself could ever hope to viddy with his own two glazzies, for it was like the gulliver and pletchoes of Ludwig van himself, what they call a bust, a like stone veshch with stone long hair and blind glazzies and the big flowing cravat.
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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Any claim that money dilution has ever done anything other than distort the price and investment structure causing an unsustainable boom to be followed by an inevitable bust is baseless.
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Part of the second series of Women of DC busts, the Vixen bust is designed by Terry Dodson, whose work really shines through here.
Collectible Review: Women of DC Vixen Bust | Fandomania 2009
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The housing bust is not about speculating in land as much as it was about rampant speculation in the market for finished homes.
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The Superman bust is designed by Carlos Pacheco and sculpted by Jean St. Jean, both of whom have turned out fantastic sculptures in the past.
Collectible Review: Heroes of the DC Universe Superman Bust | Fandomania 2009
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Maybe "crime doesn't pay," but one of the lessons of the housing bust is that fraud does.
Danny Schechter: Report From the Epicenter of the Fraudclosure Crisis Danny Schechter 2010
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After all, who doesn't want to see Joe Stalin bust a move on an invading Martian?
March 2009 2009
bilby commented on the word bust
Wordie or ____
September 25, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word bust
Tar mark upon sheep, commonly the initials of the proprietor's name. --Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841. Also boost.
May 10, 2011