Definition of bust in English English dictionary
- An emphatic to do
He busted huge air off that jump!.
- To reduce in rank
He busted him down to patrolman for insubordination.
- 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 break something
- A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
- without any money, broke
- A failed enterprise; a bomb
- To lose all of one's chips
- The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation:
a narcotics bust.
- To arrest for a crime
- The breasts and upper thorax of a woman
- {n} a half statue, pile, ancient funeral pile
- once the well is too full to hold any more pieces you have busted and the game is over
- break open or apart suddenly and forcefully; "The dam burst"
- {f} arrest, imprison; break, tame; attack, hit; collapse under stress; fail; go bankrupt; lower in rank
- A portrait sculpture or a painting representing a person's head, neck, shoulders and upper chest, and perhaps the upper arms
- 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
- (B) a very poor hand; a hand weak in honor cards; a hand weak for the holder's earlier bidding
- If someone is busted, the police arrest them. They were busted for possession of cannabis
- [Slang], an inaccurate forecast ~ usually a situation in which significant weather is expected, but does not occur
- alteration of burst
- ruin completely; "He busted my radio!"
- to catch someone in the act of doing something wrong or illegal
- A term used the same as the verb "to do" only with more emphasis e g "He busted a huge air over that tree "
- an occasion for excessive eating or drinking; "they went on a bust that lasted three days" a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
- a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
- when the wheels come off a company's or a country's finances and default, bankruptcy or other financial horrors follow
- lacking funds; "`skint' is a British slang term"
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- To run out of money, especially in a tournament
- If police bust a place, they go to it in order to arrest people who are doing something illegal. police success in busting UK-based drug factories. Bust is also a noun. Six tons of cocaine were seized last week in Panama's biggest drug bust
- the sculptural portrayal of a persons head and shoulders
- the act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation: a narcotics bust
- The form bust is used as the present tense of the verb, and can also be used as the past tense and past participle
- {s} impoverished, broke; bankrupt; spoilt, broken
- {i} artistic representation (sculpture, painting, etc.) of the upper part of a human body; chest, breast, woman's breasts; arrest; failure; bankruptcy; sudden economic decline; blow, hit
- You can use bust to refer to a woman's breasts, especially when you are describing their size. Good posture also helps your bust look bigger
- To run out of money, especially in a tournament I busted in the second round, when my rockets lost to 87 off suit
- If you bust something, you break it or damage it so badly that it cannot be used. They will have to bust the door to get him out
- A company or fund that is bust has no money left and has been forced to close down. It is taxpayers who will pay most of the bill for bailing out bust banks
- search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on; "The police raided the crack house"
- an occasion for excessive eating or drinking; "they went on a bust that lasted three days"
- If a company goes bust, it loses so much money that it is forced to close down. a Swiss company which went bust last May
- A statue of a human figure from the waist up, without arms
- separate or cause to separate abruptly; "The rope snapped"; "tear the paper"
- A bust is a statue of the head and shoulders of a person. a bronze bust of the Queen
- A sculpture of a person which shows only the upper half of the body A bust can include the head, shoulders, and chest
- [Slang], an inaccurate forecast or an unsuccessful storm chase; usually a situation in which thunderstorms or severe weather are expected, but do not occur
- An inaccurate forecast, usually a situation in which significant weather is expected, but does not occur
- go to pieces; "The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely"
- The head and shoulders of the emblematic Liberty seen on many United States issues including Capped Bust and Draped Bust coins
- A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast
- a complete failure; "the play was a dismal flop"
- Arrest
- bust a cap
- To fire a weapon; to shoot with a gatt
- bust a cap in someone's ass
- Alternative form of pop a cap in someone's ass
- bust a gasket
- Alternative of blow a gasket
You really think he’d last five minutes? Poor guy is so blueballed he’d bust a gasket thirty seconds in.
- bust a move
- to seduce
I'm gonna bust a move on that fine ass bitch.
- bust a move
- to evade
Bust a move, it's The Man..
- bust a move
- to dance
Damn, see that guy on the dance floor? He can bust a move! That, my friend, is groovin'.
- bust a move
- to flatulate
Jim went over to hit on that girl at the bar, but as he opened his mouth, he felt he was about to bust a move, so he continued toward the patio outside.
- bust a move
- to depart
It's time to go. Let's bust a move..
- bust a move
- Save oneself from a awkward situation with a woman
Hey, did you see Bob last night with that chick? Yeah, he had to bust a move and got laid..
- bust ass cold
- Extremely cold
It was bust ass cold out, but I still had to go in to work.
- bust chops
- To nag; to berate or hound in an effort to elicit action
The boss busted our chops all week.
- bust one's ass
- to work very hard, to put in a lot of effort
- bust one's butt
- To work exceptionally hard
I've been busting my butt getting the tent fixed, while you're just sipping cocoa. Give me a hand.
- bust one's chops
- To exert oneself
I've been busting my chops to get this out by end of day.
- bust out
- to burst out (laughing)
- bust out
- to bring out, to take out
- bust out
- to free from captivity
They tried to bust the prisoner out, but were thwarted by the police.
- bust out
- to escape (from); break out
bust out of prison.
- bust out
- to reveal, to show
- Bust out
- (deyim) To play music
- Bust out
- (deyim) To retrieve something that you have
- Bust out
- (deyim) To apply something (skills, etc)
- bust digits
- To get someone's telephone number. - I need a date for tomorrow night, so I'm going to try to bust some digits tonight.- I stood at the bar busting digits all night long
This is African-American slang. 'Digits' are numbers, and 'bust' means 'break open'. So the phrase suggests that you're getting some numbers from a source that has to be opened up.
- bust open a can of whoopass
- (deyim) Prepare to beat someone up/get really angry after they've done something appalling: (Usually meant as a joke between friends.)
If you don't stop bugging me, I'm gonna bust open a can of whoopass on you!.
- bust someone out
- escape
- bust someone out
- get away
- bust someone's balls
- (deyim) Nag; to berate or hound in an effort to elicit action
- bust someone's chops
- (deyim) Nag; to berate or hound in an effort to elicit action
- bust one's butt
- work extremely hard; try very hard
- bust peg
- wooden frame used to support a sculpture of molded clay or wax (Art)
- bust this
- break this, destroy this; listen to this, pay attention to this (Slang)
- bust up
- {i} grave argument or quarrel which ends a relationship; separation of a marriage or friendship; large noisy party
- bust up
- {f} wreck, break or smash by means of force
- bust up
- smash or break forcefully; "The kid busted up the car
- bust up
- smash or break forcefully; "The kid busted up the car"
- bust-up
- A bust-up is a fight. a bust-up which she says left her seriously hurt
- bust-up
- a serious quarrel (especially one that ends a friendship)
- bust-up
- A bust-up is a serious quarrel, often resulting in the end of a relationship. She had had this bust-up with her family. = row
- bust-up takeover
- a leveraged buyout in which the target company's assets are sold to repay the loan that financed the takeover
- buy-and-bust operation
- an undercover operation by narcotics detectives to catch unsuspecting drug dealers
- beer-bust
- A large, usually boisterous party, as for college students, club members, or soldiers, at which beer is the sole or principal beverage and is consumed in large quantities
- boom and bust
- A pattern of high prices in a given market or in the entire economy followed by ruinously low prices, falling production, and bankruptcies by producers
- busted
- Broke; having no money
I'd like to help you, but I'm busted.
- busted
- Caught and arrested for committing a crime
I got busted last year for taking a pair of mittens from the store.
- busted
- Simple past tense and past participle of bust
- busted
- Broken
- busted
- Having a certain type of bust (breasts; cleavage)
- busted
- Caught in the act of doing something one shouldn't do
Plus, to be honest, the look on his face when he realized how very busted they were was worth far more than the fifty dollars I paid for their dinner.
- busting
- Urgently needing to urinate
The kid is busting to go to the toilet.
- go bust
- To undergo financial collapse - "so many airlines are going bust due to high oil prices"
- boom-bust cycle
- A boom-bust cycle is a series of events in which a rapid increase in business activity in the economy is followed by a rapid decrease in business activity, and this process is repeated again and again. We must avoid the damaging boom-bust cycles which characterised the 1980s
- busted
- Arrested
- busted
- suddenly and violently broken open especially from internal pressure (`busted' is an informal term for `burst'); "a burst balloon"; "burst pipes"; "burst seams"; "a ruptured appendix"; "a busted balloon"
- busted
- out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken'); "a broken washing machine"; "the coke machine is broken"; "the coke machine is busted"
- busted
- Too many points scored
- busted
- (used informally especially of bones) fractured; "my arm is busted"; "I got my head busted in the fight"; "can't play with a busted baseball bat
- busted
- (used informally especially of bones) fractured; "my arm is busted"; "I got my head busted in the fight"; "can't play with a busted baseball bat"
- busted
- Indicates that the person addressed has been caught in the act, whether by the speaker or a third party
- busted
- Tired
- busted
- past of bust
- busted
- Caught in the act of doing something one shouldnt do
- busted
- Caught breaking rules; demoted in rank
- busting
- present participle of bust
- busts
- plural of bust
- busts
- third person singular of bust
- drug bust
- seizure of illegal drugs by the police
- went bust
- broke down, became useless