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   bust

   /bʌst/

   verb

   • 1. break, split, or burst: "they bust the tunnel wide open" Similar breakcracksnapfractureshattersmashsmash to smithereensfragmentsplinterdisintegratefall to bitsfall to piecessplitburstrupturetearrendseverseparatedividerare:shiver
   • ▪ (of a group or couple) separate, typically after a quarrel: "now they've bust up, she won't inherit the house"
   • ▪ violently disrupt: "men hired to bust up union rallies"
   • ▪ strike violently: North American "Tamara bust him in the eye"
   • ▪ escape: "she busted out of prison"
   • ▪ (in blackjack and similar card games) exceed the score of 21, so losing one's stake.
   • 2. (of the police) raid or search (premises where illegal activity is suspected): North American "my flat got busted" Similar raidsearchmake a search ofswoop onmake a raid oninformal:do over
   • ▪ arrest: "two roadies were busted for drugs" Similar arrestapprehendtake into custodyseizetake intake prisonerdetainput in jailthrow in jailinformal:pick uprun inpull inhaul incopnabnaildocollarfeel someone's collarpinchnickOpposite release
   • ▪ be caught in the act of doing something wrong: "I sneaked up on them and told them they were busted"
   • ▪ reduce (a soldier) to a lower rank; demote: US "he was busted to private"

   noun

   • 1. a period of economic difficulty or depression: "the boom was followed by the present bust"
   • 2. a raid or arrest by the police: "a drug bust"
   • 3. a worthless thing: "cynics remain convinced the political process is a bust"
   • 4. a violent blow: North American "a bust on the snout"

   adjective

   • 1. damaged or broken: British "the vacuum cleaner's bust"
   • 2. bankrupt: "six of their sponsors have gone bust"

   Word Origin mid 17th century (originally in the sense ‘burst, break, fall to pieces’): variant of burst.

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   What does bust mean?

   • Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! The meaning of BUST is a sculptured representation of the upper part of the human figure including the head and neck and usually part of the shoulders and breast. How to use bust in a sentence.

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   What does it mean if a person is busted?

   • 1. If you bust something, you break it or damage it so badly that it cannot be used. [informal] [...] 2. If someone is busted, the police arrest them. [informal] [...] 3. If police bust a place, they go to it in order to arrest people who are doing something illegal. [informal] [...]

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   What does burst mean?

   • 1. to burst. 2. to break or separate; split (usu. fol. by up). 3. to go bankrupt. 4. to collapse from the strain of making a supreme effort. 5. Informal. a. to burst. b. to bankrupt; ruin financially. 6. to demote, esp. in military rank. 7. to tame; break: to bust a bronco.

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   What is a bust on a piano?

   • There's also the kind of bust that might sit on your piano, like a bust of Mozart or Bach — a statue of a person's head and upper shoulders. This is the oldest meaning of the word, from the Italian busto, "upper body."

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   What is the etymology of Busto?

   • The traditional etymology of Italian busto connects it with classical Latin bustum "funeral pyre, burial mound" but the improbable notion of a transfer in sense from "burial mound" to "representation of the upper body" is not supported by the Romance evidence, which shows a clear progression "tree trunk" > "trunk of the body."

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   What happens if police bust a place?

   • If police bust a place, they go to it in order to arrest people who are doing something illegal. [informal] [...] A bust is a decrease in economic activity with declining growth and falling prices. present simple: I bust, you bust [...]

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   The meaning of BUST is a sculptured representation of the upper part of the human figure including the head and neck and usually part of the shoulders and breast. How to use bust in a sentence.

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   If you bust something, you have broken it. A bust can also be a statue of someone from the shoulders up. Be careful to not bust a bust on your next field trip! Several meanings of bust are pretty discouraging. You might describe your business as bust if it's totally out of money, for example.

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   bust noun [C] (MODEL) a model of someone's head and shoulders: a bronze bust of Mozart. a drug bust. an occasion when the police catch people selling or using illegal drugs: Officers arrested two men in a major drug bust last night.

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   1. Informal. a. To smash or break, especially forcefully: "Mr. Luger worked it with a rake, busting up the big clods, making a flat brown table" (Garrison Keillor). b. To render inoperable or unusable: busted the vending machine by putting in foreign coins. 2. To cause to come to an end; break up: an attempt to bust the union. 3.

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   Definitions of 'bust'. 1. If you bust something, you break it or damage it so badly that it cannot be used. [informal] [...] 2. If someone is busted, the police arrest them. [informal] [...] 3. If police bust a place, they go to it in order to arrest people who are doing something illegal.

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   noun. a sculptured, painted, drawn, or engraved representation of the upper part of the human figure, especially a portrait sculpture showing only the head and shoulders of the subject. the chest or breast, especially a woman's bosom. bust. 2. [ buhst ] Phonetic (Standard)IPA. verb (used without object) Informal. to burst. to go bankrupt.

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   4 days ago · bust (third-person singular simple present busts, present participle busting, simple past and past participle busted or bust) (transitive, colloquial, chiefly US) To break. I busted my cooker while trying to fix it. (transitive, slang) To arrest (someone) for a crime.