Definition of Bust

Verb: bust (bust, also busted)  búst

  1. Ruin completely
    - break
     
  2. Search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on
    "The police bust the crack house";
    - raid
     
  3. Separate or cause to separate abruptly
    "bust the paper";
    - tear, rupture, snap
     
  4. Go to pieces
    - break, wear, wear out, fall apart
     
  5. Break open or apart suddenly and forcefully
    - burst
Noun: bust  búst
  1. A complete failure
    "the play was a dismal bust";
    - flop, fizzle
     
  2. The chest of a woman
    - female chest
     
  3. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
     
  4. An occasion for excessive eating or drinking
    "they went on a bust that lasted three days";
    - tear, binge, bout
Adjective: bust  búst
  1. Without or very short of money
    "not so long ago that he was so bust his debit card was declined";
    - broke, skint [Brit], stone-broke [N. Amer], stony-broke [Brit], strapped, cash-strapped, strapped for cash
     
  2. Financially ruined
    - bankrupt, belly-up

See also:
bussings
bustard

Anagrams containing the word bust

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