'bust' definitions:
Definition of 'bust'
From: WordNet
adjective
Lacking funds; "`skint' is a British slang term" [syn: broke, bust, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke]
noun
noun
The chest of a woman [syn: female chest, bust]
noun
A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
noun
An occasion for excessive eating or drinking; "they went on a bust that lasted three days" [syn: bust, tear, binge, bout]
verb
Ruin completely; "He busted my radio!" [syn: break, bust] [ant: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on]
verb
Search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on; "The police raided the crack house" [syn: raid, bust]
verb
Separate or cause to separate abruptly; "The rope snapped"; "tear the paper" [syn: tear, rupture, snap, bust]
verb
Go to pieces; "The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely" [syn: break, wear, wear out, bust, fall apart]
verb
Break open or apart suddenly and forcefully; "The dam burst" [syn: burst, bust]
Definition of 'bust'
From: GCIDE
- bust \bust\ (b[u^]st), n. [F. buste, fr. It. busto; cf. LL. busta, bustula, box, of the same origin as E. box a case; cf., for the change of meaning, E. chest. See Bushel.]
- 1. A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast. [1913 Webster]
- Ambition sighed: she found it vain to trust The faithless column, and the crumbling bust. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The portion of the human figure included between the head and waist, whether in statuary or in the person; the chest or thorax; the upper part of the trunk of the body. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Especially: A woman's bosom[2]. [PJC]
Definition of 'bust'
From: GCIDE
- bust \bust\ (b[u^]st), v. t. To arrest, for committing a crime; -- often used in the passive; as, the whole gang got busted. [informal] [PJC]
Definition of 'bust'
From: GCIDE
- bust \bust\ (b[u^]st), v. i.
- 1. To break or burst. [informal] [PJC]
- 2. (Card Playing) In blackjack, to draw a card that causes one's total to exceed twenty-one. [PJC]
- 3. To go bankrupt. [PJC]
- to go bust to go bankrupt.
- or bust or collapse from the effort; -- used in phrases expressing determination to do something; as, Oregon or bust, meaning "We will get to Oregon or die trying." [PJC]
Synonyms of 'bust'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abase,
- abasement,
- ado,
- apprehend,
- apprehension,
- arch,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- bacchanal,
- bacchanalia,
- bacchanalian,
- backfire,
- bad times,
- bag,
- bang,
- bankrupt,
- bankruptcy,
- barrow,
- bat,
- be ruined,
- become insolvent,
- bender,
- binge,
- blast,
- blow out,
- blow up,
- bomb,
- boobs,
- boom,
- boot,
- booze,
- bosom,
- bottoming out,
- bounce,
- bouncing check,
- boundary stone,
- bout,
- box,
- brannigan,
- brass,
- breach,
- break,
- break in,
- break to harness,
- breast,
- breasts,
- brisket,
- bum,
- bump,
- burst,
- business cycle,
- business fluctuations,
- bustle,
- cairn,
- can,
- capture,
- carousal,
- carouse,
- carving,
- cashier,
- casting down,
- celebration,
- cenotaph,
- check,
- chest,
- chip,
- chop,
- clamor,
- clap,
- clash,
- clout,
- collapse,
- collar,
- column,
- compotation,
- cooling off,
- crack,
- crash,
- crisis,
- cromlech,
- crop,
- cross,
- crump,
- cup,
- cyclolith,
- debase,
- debasement,
- debauch,
- deconsecrate,
- defrock,
- degradation,
- degrade,
- degrading,
- dement,
- demerit,
- demote,
- demotion,
- deplume,
- depluming,
- depose,
- depression,
- deprive,
- detain,
- dethrone,
- detonate,
- disbar,
- discharge,
- discrown,
- disemploy,
- disenthrone,
- disgrade,
- disgrading,
- dismiss,
- displace,
- displume,
- displuming,
- doll,
- dolly,
- dolmen,
- domesticate,
- downgrade,
- downgrading,
- downturn,
- drinking bout,
- drum out,
- drunk,
- drunken carousal,
- dud,
- dug,
- dull thud,
- dummy,
- economic cycle,
- economic expansion,
- economic growth,
- economic stagnation,
- escapade,
- evil day,
- excommunicate,
- exfoliate,
- expanding economy,
- expansion,
- expel,
- explode,
- fail,
- failure,
- fantoccini,
- figure,
- figurehead,
- figurine,
- fire,
- fissure,
- fizzle,
- flap,
- flat failure,
- fling,
- flop,
- floperoo,
- flunk,
- flunk out,
- flurry,
- fold,
- fold up,
- footstone,
- fracture,
- frost,
- fulminate,
- furlough,
- furore,
- fuss,
- gentle,
- gingerbread man,
- give the ax,
- give the gate,
- go bankrupt,
- go into receivership,
- go off,
- go to pot,
- go to ruin,
- go under,
- go up,
- grave,
- gravestone,
- growth,
- guzzle,
- hard times,
- hassle,
- haymaker,
- headstone,
- heavy weather,
- high growth rate,
- hoarstone,
- housebreak,
- hubbub,
- humble,
- humbling,
- hurly-burly,
- impoverish,
- inscription,
- insolvency,
- insufficient funds,
- jag,
- kick,
- kick upstairs,
- kited check,
- knock,
- knockers,
- lark,
- lay figure,
- lay off,
- lemon,
- let go,
- let off,
- let out,
- liquidate,
- loser,
- low,
- lower,
- make a pinch,
- make redundant,
- mama,
- mamelon,
- mamelonation,
- mammary gland,
- mammilla,
- mammillation,
- man of straw,
- manikin,
- mannequin,
- marionette,
- marker,
- market expansion,
- mausoleum,
- megalith,
- memento,
- memorial,
- memorial arch,
- memorial column,
- memorial statue,
- memorial stone,
- menhir,
- model,
- monolith,
- monument,
- mound,
- nab,
- necrology,
- nenes,
- netting,
- nipple,
- obelisk,
- obituary,
- orgy,
- oust,
- overdraft,
- overdrawn account,
- overthrow,
- pap,
- papilla,
- paste,
- pauper,
- pauperize,
- peak,
- peaking,
- pension,
- pension off,
- pick up,
- pigeon breast,
- pillar,
- pinch,
- plaque,
- ploy,
- poke,
- portrait bust,
- potation,
- pother,
- prize,
- prosperity,
- pub-crawl,
- pull in,
- punch,
- puppet,
- purge,
- pyramid,
- rainy day,
- randan,
- randy,
- rap,
- read out of,
- receivership,
- recession,
- recovery,
- reduce,
- reduction,
- release,
- reliquary,
- remembrance,
- remove,
- remove from office,
- replace,
- report,
- retire,
- revel,
- ribbon,
- rostral column,
- ruin,
- run in,
- rupture,
- sack,
- sad times,
- scale,
- scarecrow,
- sculpture,
- scuttle,
- seizure,
- separate forcibly,
- set off,
- shaft,
- shoot,
- shrine,
- shut down,
- sink,
- slam,
- slap,
- slat,
- slowdown,
- slump,
- smack,
- snap,
- snowman,
- sock,
- splat,
- split,
- spree,
- statuary,
- statue,
- statuette,
- stela,
- stone,
- stormy weather,
- strip,
- strip of office,
- strip of rank,
- stripping of rank,
- stupa,
- superannuate,
- surplus,
- suspend,
- swap,
- symposium,
- tablet,
- tame,
- tap,
- tear,
- teat,
- testimonial,
- thorax,
- thwack,
- tit,
- tits,
- titties,
- titty,
- to-do,
- tomb,
- tombstone,
- toot,
- tope,
- total loss,
- touch off,
- trophy,
- tumult,
- turkey,
- turmoil,
- turn off,
- turn out,
- udder,
- unchurch,
- unfrock,
- unsaddle,
- unseat,
- unthrone,
- uproar,
- upturn,
- wash out,
- washout,
- wassail,
- wax figure,
- waxwork,
- whack,
- wham,
- whap,
- whirl,
- whirlpool,
- whirlwind,
- whomp,
- whop,
- wingding,
- wood carving