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bust
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
bust \bust\ (b[u^]st), v. i. To break or burst. [informal] (Card Playing) In blackjack, to draw a card that causes one's total to exceed twenty-one. To go bankrupt. to go bust to go bankrupt. or bust or collapse from the effort; -- used in phrases ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a company goes bust informal (= goes bankrupt ) go from boom to bust (= change from doing very well economically to doing very badly ) ▪ The Mexican economy went from boom to bust very quickly. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bust may refer to: Bust (sculpture) , depicting a person's head and shoulders Bust (magazine) , a feminist pop culture magazine Bust, Bas-Rhin , a city in north-eastern France Bust may also refer to Jonathan Drouin, the 3rd overall pick of the Tampa Bay ...
Usage examples of bust.
It was sleeveless, with a scooped neck and a softly full torso that would cling around the bust and then float out in an ageless style that fell to the floor.
Urged by self-preservation, Steve hurled his only weapon, the alumite bust that had served him one good turn.
All in one lithe operation, the murderer was off into the night, carrying the alumite bust as a bonus.
Shy, iridescent, coltish, pelvically anfractuous, amply busted, given to diffident movements of hand brushing flaxen hair from front of dear creamy forehead, movements which drove Bruce Green up a private tree.
Her eyes were smoky marbles in a bust of discolored lapis lazuli, and I regarded her at that moment as an angel of transcendent apehood, a woman well ahead of her time.
About to reload, Clyde heard indignant buzzes from the directors near him and realized that the heroic bust represented old Henry Argyle, the presiding deity in these precincts.
I gave the monkey wide berth, nearly knocked into a huge betasselled sombrero someone had perched on a marble bust of the third Duke, avoided the peculiar green drink thrust in my direction by a woman dressed predominantly in beads and fringe, and escaped.
Blues screw that might have driven a lesser Bluesman to shoot hisself, get shot, get hold of some bad liquor, or bust up his guitar and take a job down to the mill.
As the men fought off boredom, Bucher began thinking the entire mission was going to be a bust.
Between the windows, two pedestals, surmounted by busts of Mademoiselle Clairon and Mademoiselle Dangeville, stood, one on each side of the great regulator--made by Robin, clockmaker to the king--which dominated the bust of Moliere--after Houdon--seeming to keep guard over all this gathering of artistic glory.
He too bent curious interested eyes upon the absorbed and searching face of his strange applicant as he placed pencils, canvas and brushes before her, and directed her to look for a model to the simple vase that stood opposite or to the bust of Clyte that was beside her.
The driver holds the door while Roth and Vasilisa move quickly through the snow and into the dim museum, where they check their coats, glance up at a large mural of Yuri Gagarin, and climb a flight of stairs to the main Gagarin exhibit where a bust of the dead cosmonaut seems to stand guard over well-dusted cases of memorabilia.
The reason the dasht is so sore is that I busted up his attempt to have the Lady Fouri kidnaped by his gang of tame bandits.
Jared wants to fight a cause, let him go busting into all the nursing homes, the clinics that doddle along on what the politicians reluctantly dole out, the street people.
Fatty to Buster, and Ern pointed his finger at Bingo, and said exactly the same.