bust
Meaning of bust
noun
- A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
- The breasts and upper thorax of a woman.
- The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
- A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
- A disappointment.
- The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
a narcotics bust
- A failed enterprise; a bomb.
- A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
- A player who fails to meet expectations.
- To break.
I busted my cooker while trying to fix it.
- To arrest (someone) for a crime.
- 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.
- An emphatic synonym of do or get.
He busted huge air off that jump!
- To reduce in rank.
He busted him down to patrolman for insubordination.
- To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
- To lose all of one's chips.
- To exceed a score of 21.
- To break in (an animal).
- To ejaculate; to eject semen.
- Without any money, broke, bankrupt.
After months of financial problems, the company finally went bust.
Information about bust
- The plural form of bust is: busts.
- Languages in which bust is used:
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- Catalan
- English
Hyphenation of bust
bust
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- bust is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
bust synonyms
Meaning broke:
Meaning flop:
Meaning tear:
tear, binge, bout, rupture, snap
Meaning break:
Meaning raid:
Meaning burst:
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Translation of bust
- German: Brust, Busen, Büste
- Portuguese: peito, seio, batida
- Spanish: pecho, teta, seno, mama, busto, redada, batida
- French: sein, nichon, néné, loloche, buste
- Italian: seno
Anagrams of bust
Words that rhyme with bust
Bust, combust, semicombust, bandobust, bundobust, robust, unrobust, arbust
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