bust
Part of speech: verb
noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: blackjack
board-games
business
card-games
chess
economics
finance
games
hobbies
journalism
lifestyle
media
poker
sciences
snowboarding
sports
Etymology: From Middle English busten, a variant of bursten, bresten (“to burst”). Compare Low German basten, a variant of barsten (“to burst”). Cognate with burst and bost.
Inflected forms:
form: busts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: busting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: busted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: busted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bust
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bust
pos: verb
tags: past
form: buss
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: busts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: buss
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: buss
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To break.
pos: verb
tags: US
colloquial
transitive
examples: I busted my cooker while trying to fix it.
gloss: To arrest (someone or a group of people) for a crime.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Aaron got busted by the feds for leaking confidential government documents on Reddit.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To debunk, dispel (a belief).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: MythBusters
gloss: An emphatic synonym of do or get.
pos: verb
examples: He busted huge air off that jump!
gloss: To reduce in rank.
pos: verb
tags: US
informal
examples: He busted him down to patrolman for insubordination.
If Steinkamp doesn't take off that hat and stop messing around, I'm gonna bust him into a PFC.
gloss: To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To lose all of one's chips.
pos: verb
gloss: To exceed a score of 21.
pos: verb
gloss: To break in (an animal).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: A few weeks later, Richard was killed accidentally while busting a wild mustang […]
gloss: To have sex with (a woman or girl) for the first time, to take another's virginity.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Smith hears Nancy's protests - "Don't ... no, please don't." - when Hicock menaces her with "You ever had a man?" Finding Hicock rubbing her thigh as she whimpers in fear, Smith confronts him about his intentions, and Hicock says, "First, I'm going to bust that little girl." Smith tells him no, but Hicock replies, "What do you care? You can bust her too."
gloss: To ejaculate; to eject semen or to squirt.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
vulgar
examples: I busted a fat one just wackin' it to the selfie she sent me.
After ten times we fucked, I think I bust twice
He was nice, kept my neck filled with ice
gloss: For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The temptation to squeeze in a favourite headline that busts by using the flexibility of new technology is often very strong.
If your headline busts (breaks the confines of the layout) you will know straightaway. Similarly, the computer will inform you, in terms of the number of lines, how much longer or shorter the copy is in relation to the space allotted.
gloss: To refute an established opening.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: So is the King's Gambit really busted?
gloss: To shoot (a gun).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: He busted his glock.
gloss: To attack, hit or insult (someone).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: He's always busting on you.
gloss: To do or perform; to move quickly.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: Bust a left turn.
gloss: The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: a narcotics bust
gloss: A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A failed enterprise; a bomb.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A disappointment.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Paris was a bust. They wouldn't even let us see the Mona Lisa.
gloss: A player who fails to meet expectations.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
gloss: The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
pos: noun
gloss: A spree, unrestrained revel, or wild party.
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
gloss: Without any money, broke, bankrupt.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: After months of financial problems, the company finally went bust.
Derived words: ball-bust
belly-busting
bunker-busting
bustable
bust a cap
bust a cap in someone's ass
bust a gasket
bust a gut
bust a move
bust a nut
bust around
bust ass
bust ass cold
bust a U
bust chops
bust down
bust-down
buster
bust in
bust into
bust it down
bust loose
bust off
bust on
bust one's ass
bust one's balls
bust one's butt
bust one's chops
bust one's gut
bust one's hump
bust one's neck
bust out
bust-out
bust sod
bust someone's agates
bust someone's ass
bust someone's balls
bust the dust
genre-busting
gut-busting
lung-busting
mutton busting
mythbust
trend-busting
bust up
buy-bust
baby bust
beer-bust
boom-and-bust
boom or bust
busthead
cloudbust
drug bust
or bust
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