Definitions for busters

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busters bust·er

Spelling: [buhs-ter]

IPA: /ˈbʌs tər/

Busters is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 177 anagrams from letters in busters (bersstu).

Definitions for busters

noun

1. a person who breaks up something:
2. something that is very big or unusual for its kind.
3. a loud, uproarious reveler.
4. a frolic; spree.
5. (initial capital letter) (used as a familiar term of address to a man or boy who is an object to the speaker's annoyance or anger):
6. a male given name.
7. a failure.
8. Informal. a hit; sock; punch:
9. a sudden decline in the economic conditions of a country, marked by an extreme drop in stock-market prices, business activity, and employment; depression.
10. Slang. an arrest. a police raid.
11. Informal. a drinking spree; binge.
12. Cards. a very weak hand. Bridge. a hand lacking the potential to take a single trick.

Idioms

1. bust ass, Slang: Vulgar. to fight with the fists; strike or thrash another.
2. bust on, Slang. to attack physically; beat up. to criticize or reprimand harshly. to make fun of or laugh at; mock. to inform on.
3. bust one's ass, Slang: Vulgar. to make an extreme effort; exert oneself.

adjective

1. Informal. bankrupt; broke.

Verb phrases

1. bust up, Informal. to break up; separate: to damage or destroy:

verb (used with object)

1. Informal. to burst. to bankrupt; ruin financially.
2. to demote, especially in military rank or grade:
3. to tame; break:
4. Slang. to place under arrest: to subject to a police raid:
5. Informal. to hit. to break; fracture:

verb (used without object)

1. Informal. to burst. to go bankrupt. to collapse from the strain of making a supreme effort:
2. Cards. Draw Poker. to fail to make a flush or straight by one card. Blackjack. to draw cards exceeding the count of 21.

Origin of busters

An Americanism dating back to 1825-35; bust² + -er¹

Examples for busters

buster can break eggs into a skillet and has done it a number of times this morning.

My 10-year-old son buster headed straight for the agitated water.

We scrambled on the bus and as it pulled away Danny yelled "Hey, buster, look!"

After being rescued from the ocean several times buster spent the rest of the afternoon  collecting flotsam and jetsam.

A bottle of The Glenlivet, aged in the cask longer than Poppet and buster put together.

Now it just happened that early as he was, some one was before buster Bear.

"It's too bad to waste such a fine fish," said buster thoughtfully.

Yes, your German Shepherd buster can wear his own health tracker.

And as buster listened it suddenly came to him just what he wanted for breakfast.

You're makin' good the sayin' that a sailor has a wife in every port aint you buster?