Definitions for Bust

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Spelling: [buhst]

IPA: /bʌst/

Bust is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in Bust (bstu).

Definitions for Bust

noun

1. 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.
2. the chest or breast, especially a woman's bosom.
3. a failure.
4. Informal. a hit; sock; punch:
5. a sudden decline in the economic conditions of a country, marked by an extreme drop in stock-market prices, business activity, and employment; depression.
6. Slang. an arrest. a police raid.
7. Informal. a drinking spree; binge.
8. 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 Bust

1685-95; French buste Italian busto, probably Latin būstum grave mound, tomb, literally, funeral pyre, ashes; presumably by association with the busts erected over graves

Examples for Bust

Nobody ever says they want to become a cop so they can bust people for urinating in public or drinking alcohol on their stoop.

Some called him Tom Sawyer the Traveler, and that just swelled him up fit to bust.

Instead, Beck returned home and made a life-changing decision to bust out of the closet.

When she took off her vail, she displayed a bust of the most attractive beauty.

It is a bust half life-size, showing the two hands and the forearms.

And every day, we bust our asses to continue “making it,” but we most certainly have not “made it.”

Then I undertook the bust of my young sister Rgina, who had, alas!

Posed for his bust while suffering with a bad attack of dyspepsia.

In writing my debut novel, The Home Place, I had to bust some Western mythology to tell the truth.

Think of it as the Jersey Shore exception, where you can act like a brutish goon and the first bust is essentially a do-over.