bust
IPA: bˈʌst
noun
- (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
- (slang) A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
- (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
- (chess, slang) A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
- (slang) A disappointment.
- (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
- (economics) The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
- (slang, dated) A spree, unrestrained revel, or wild party.
- A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
- The breasts and upper thorax of a woman.
verb
- (transitive, colloquial, chiefly US) To break.
- (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.
- (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
- (finance, transitive) To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
- (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
- (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
- (transitive, slang) To break in (an animal).
- (transitive, slang) To break in (a woman or girl), To deflower
- (intransitive, slang) To ejaculate; to eject semen or to squirt.
- (journalism, intransitive) For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
- (chess, slang) To refute an established opening.
adjective
- (slang) Without any money, broke, bankrupt.
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Examples of "bust" in Sentences
- The error in the citation is busted.
- The figure is the bust of the emperor.
- His ashes are in the plinth of the bust.
- The bronze have the Imperial bust on the obverse.
- It is the biggest monumental bust of of the world.
- The order of the busts is not strictly chronological.
- He was not amused and busted into the face of the Tornado.
- The obverse depicts the crowned bust of Isabella of Spain.
- The bust is exhibited in the Palace of Europe in Strasbourg.
- It is believed to be the biggest bust in the history of the Navy.
- After all, who doesn't want to see Joe Stalin bust a move on an invading Martian?
- Maybe "crime doesn't pay," but one of the lessons of the housing bust is that fraud does.
- But the other thing people need to watch out for is what I call the bust-out cell phone bill.
- Included with this bust is a separate Central City manhole cover, to be placed on or near the bust by the consumer.
- The housing bust is not about speculating in land as much as it was about rampant speculation in the market for finished homes.
- Part of the second series of Women of DC busts, the Vixen bust is designed by Terry Dodson, whose work really shines through here.
- The Superman bust is designed by Carlos Pacheco and sculpted by Jean St. Jean, both of whom have turned out fantastic sculptures in the past.
- I think this bust would have been better as a full-size statue or even a diorama, but if a bust is the only way I can bring this slightly obscure Disney baddie home, so be it.
- Any claim that money dilution has ever done anything other than distort the price and investment structure causing an unsustainable boom to be followed by an inevitable bust is baseless.
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