bust
Plural: busts
Noun
- a complete failure
- the chest of a woman
- a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
- an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
- "they went on a bust that lasted three days"
- The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
- A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
- A failed enterprise; a bomb.
- A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
- A disappointment.
- A player who fails to meet expectations.
- The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
- A spree, unrestrained revel, or wild party.
- A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
- The circumference of a woman's chest around her breasts.
Verb
Verb Forms: busted, busting, busts
- To break, burst, or become broken suddenly.
- ruin completely
- "He busted my radio!"
- search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- go to pieces
- break open or apart suddenly and forcefully
- To break.
- To arrest (someone or a group of people) for a crime.
- To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.
- To debunk, dispel (a belief).
- An emphatic synonym of do or get.
- To reduce in rank.
- To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
- To lose all of one's chips.
- To exceed a score of 21.
- To break in (an animal).
- To break in (a woman or girl), to deflower
- To ejaculate; to eject semen or to squirt.
- For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
- To refute an established opening.
- To shoot (a gun).
- To attack, hit or insult (someone).
- To do or perform; to move quickly.
Adjective Satellite
- lacking funds
Adj
- Without any money, broke, bankrupt.
Examples
- a narcotics bust
- Aaron got busted by the feds for leaking confidential government documents on Reddit.
- After months of financial problems, the company finally went bust.
- Bust a left turn.
- He busted him down to patrolman for insubordination.
- He busted his glock.
- He busted huge air off that jump!
- He managed to BUST open the game with a seven-letter word on a triple word score.
- He's always busting on you.
- I busted a fat one just wackin' it to the selfie she sent me.
- I busted my cooker while trying to fix it.
- MythBusters
Origin / Etymology
From a non-rhotic pronunciation of burst, which goes back to Middle English busten, a variant of bursten, bresten (“to burst”). Compare Low German basten, a variant of barsten (“to burst”).
Synonyms
binge, bout, break, broke, burst, fall apart, female chest, fizzle, flop, raid, rupture, skint, snap, stone-broke, stony-broke, tear, wear, wear out, nick
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 6
bust: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbust: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bust: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary