buster

Plural: busters

Noun

• A person or thing that breaks, destroys, or overcomes something.
• an informal form of address for a man
  • "Hey buster, what's up?"
• a robust child
• a person who breaks horses
• a person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something
  • "dam buster"
  • "sanction buster"
  • "crime buster"
• a person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically
• Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing.
• Forming compounds denoting a team, weapon, or device specialized in the destruction of the first element.
• Someone who or something that 'breaks', tames, or overpowers a specified person or thing.
• A broncobuster.
• Someone who or something that 'breaks', tames, or overpowers a specified person or thing.
• Forming compounds denoting an agent or agency tasked with reducing or eliminating the first element.
• Someone or something remarkable, especially for being loud, large, etc.
• Someone or something remarkable, especially for being loud, large, etc.
• A form of address, particularly of men: guy, dude, fella, mack, buddy, loser. (Originally as 'old buster'.)
• A loaf of bread.
• A drinking spree, a binge.
• A gale, a strong wind; (especially Australia) a southerly buster.
• A heavy fall; (also performing arts) a staged fall, a pratfall.
• A molting crab.
• A cheat's die whose sides bear only certain combinations of spots, so that undesirable values can never be rolled.

Examples

• His ’BUSTER’ challenge destroyed my bluff, revealing an invalid word.

Synonyms

baby buster, bronco buster, broncobuster, dude, fellow