bust
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈbʌst/
bust (plural busts)
- A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
- The breasts and upper thorax of a woman.
- (economics) The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
- (slang) A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
- (slang) A disappointment.
bust (busts, present participle busting; past and past participle busted)
- (transitive, colloquial, mostly, US) To break.
- I busted my cooker while trying to fix it.
- (transitive, slang) To arrest (someone) for a crime.
- (transitive, slang) 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.
- (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
- He busted huge air off that jump!
- (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
- He busted him down to patrolman for insubordination.
- 1962, The Manchurian Candidate, 01:56:35
- If Steinkamp doesn't take off that hat and stop messing around, I'm gonna bust him into a PFC.
- (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
- (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
- (transitive, slang) To break in (an animal).
- (intransitive, slang) To ejaculate; to eject semen.
- (to arrest for a crime) nick
- French: éclater
- German: bersten
- Italian: scoppiare (intransitive), far scoppiare (transitive)
- Spanish: reventar
- French: bouziller, niquer, péter
- German: zerbrechen, zerstören
- Italian: rompere, sfasciare
- Spanish: reventar
- French: attraper, arrêter
- German: einlochen
- Italian: acciuffare, attaccare
- Spanish: trincar
- French: pincer, choper, prendre sur le fait, prendre la main dans le sac (slang), gauler
- German: ertappen, erwischen
- Italian: sgamare
- Russian: засту́кать
- Spanish: cazar, pillar
- German: degradieren
bust (plural busts)
- (slang) The act of arrest#Verb|arresting someone for a crime, or raid#Verb|raiding a suspected#Adjective|suspected criminal#Adjective|criminal operation.
- a narcotics bust
- (slang) A failed#Adjective|failed enterprise; a bomb#Noun|bomb.
- (chess, informal) A refutation of an opening#Noun|opening, or of a previously published analysis.
- (sports, derogatory) A player who fail#Verb|fails to meet expectations.
- French: arrestation
- Italian: arresto, fare irruzione, irruzione
- Russian: налёт
bust (not comparable)
- (slang) Without any money, broke, bankrupt.
- After months of financial problems, the company finally went bust.
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