English Explanatory Dictionary

bust

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To break.
  2. To arrest (someone or a group of people) for a crime.
  3. 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.
  4. To debunk, dispel (a belief).
  5. An emphatic synonym of do or get.
  6. To reduce in rank.
  7. To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
  8. To lose all of one's chips.
  9. To exceed a score of 21.
  10. To break in (an animal).
  11. To have sex with (a woman or girl) for the first time, to take another's virginity.
  12. To ejaculate; to eject semen or to squirt.
noun
  1. The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
  2. A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
  3. A failed enterprise; a bomb.
  4. A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
  5. A disappointment.
  6. A player who fails to meet expectations.
  7. The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
  8. A spree, unrestrained revel, or wild party.
adj
  1. Without any money, broke, bankrupt.
noun
  1. A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
  2. A woman's breasts; the circumference of her chest measured around the breasts.

Pronunciation

/bʌst/ en-us-bust.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bust.wav en-au-bust.ogg /bʊst/

Word forms

bust busts busting busted buss

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.

Synonyms

nick

Related words

bustier

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 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 bust-up busted go bust bust improver bustlike bustline busty
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