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Verb: bust up
Usage: informal
  1. Smash or break forcefully
    - wreck, wrack [archaic]
Noun: bust-up  'búst,úp
Usage: informal
  1. An angry dispute
    - quarrel, wrangle, row[2], words, run-in [informal], dustup [informal], dust-up, blue [Austral, NZ, informal], slanging match [Brit, informal], ding-dong [Brit, informal], barney [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: busting up, busts up, bust-ups, bust up

Type of: conflict, destroy, difference, difference of opinion, dispute, ruin

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Buster Keaton
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