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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
    "The lawn mower finally bust"
    - 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. Lacking funds;
    - broke, skint [Brit], stone-broke [N. Amer], stony-broke [Brit], strapped, cash-strapped, strapped for cash

Sounds like: bused, bussed

Derived forms: busts, bust, busting

See also: bust up, buster, busty, poor

Type of: assail, attack, break, chest, come apart, crumble, decay, destroy, dilapidate, disunite, divide, failure, fall apart, part, pectus, revel, revelry, ruin, sculpture, separate, spifflicate, spiflicate, split up, thorax

Part of: female body

Encyclopedia: Bust Bust, Bas-Rhin