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Meaning bust meaning

What does bust mean?
Definitions in simple English

bust Noun

— A bust sculpture of a person's head and shoulders The bust will break and shatter if it falls onto the floor. — A woman's bust is her breasts. I like this shirt a lot, but it doesn't fit really well in the bust.

bust Verb

— To bust is to burst or break something. My car is all busted up.

bust

— verb ruin completely He busted my radio! — noun an occasion for excessive eating or drinking they went on a bust that lasted three days — noun a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person — noun (= flop) a complete failure the play was a dismal flop — noun (= female chest) the chest of a woman — verb (= burst) break open or apart suddenly and forcefully The dam burst — verb (= raid) search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on The police raided the crack house — adjective (= skint) lacking funds 'skint' is a British slang term — verb (= tear, snap) separate or cause to separate abruptly The rope snapped tear the paper — verb (= break, wear, wear out, fall apart) go to pieces The lawn mower finally broke The gears wore out The old chair finally fell apart completely

Synonyms bust synonyms

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bust English » English

bosom break breast tear raid chest break up snap breasts thorax stony-broke smash rupture fragment fizzle fall apart failure crack burst broke binge bankruptcy wear out wear stone-broke skint fracture flop female chest disband decompose collapse catch in the act break open break down bout bodice blow bankrupt wash out violate upper half of body up transgress total torso tits tit tame take apart

Topics bust topics

What do people use bust to talk about?
Person Body

Torso
Social behavior Authority Status

Low status
Social behavior Government Government functions Police

Arrest
Physical actions Divide into pieces

Break
Physical actions

Break, wear out
Physical actions Break, wear out

Damage
Physical actions Move Pursue

Escape

Conjugation bust conjugation

How do you conjugate bust?

bust · verb

Examples bust examples

How do I use bust in a sentence?

Simple sentences

A lot of small businesses have gone bust in the last twelve months.
Come on, Tom, bust him up!

Movie subtitles

I'll bust in all right!
If you don't shut up, I'll give you a bust in the mouth.
Don't get her sore, or he'll bust you in the nose.
Do I have to bust you in the jaw to make you get out?
You'll bust it!
Even if they're the whole police department they can't bust in here, questioning my wife.
Bust my fenders.
Get away from me, screw, or I'll bust your face in.
When you bust your back all day, the night's for getting some sleep.
Well, bust my buttons!
You're about to bust a gut to know what I done, ain't you?
Well, he cleared her. But he bust his leg snap in two doing it.
You didn't bust out?
Bust out?
I'll get it or bust a few noses.
Liondora is a bust too.
It's awful to bust up your wedding.
What do I do, bust in on you and the old man?
You'll bust in on them a half an hour earlier, that's all.
All Gladys had to do was bust into the house.
Guys took off their hats when I told them to. and there's plenty of them still scared that maybe I might bust out of this joint.
To think that others bust their brains to play chess.
I'm gonna shoot for the body and bust his tripes.
They want to bar my way, but I'll bust through the barriers.
Just yelling' and a-hollerin' so it'd nearly bust your ears.
And they bust my new glasses.
Maybe I'll help the old man bust it up!.
He's a bust, huh?
No, I'm a bust.
No college boy still wet behind the ears is gonna bust us up.
You play ball or we'll bust your bubble so quick it'll make your head spin.
You'll bust it! You be careful!
They can't bust in here shooting questions at my wife.

News and current affairs

In the east, China, its growth model unsustainable, could be underwater by 2013, as its investment bust continues and reforms intended to boost consumption are too little too late.
The fall in property prices was modest relative to Ireland and Spain, and, because there was no construction boom, there was no construction bust.
For example, the derivative markets should create an environment that encourages insurers to develop home equity insurance, which insures homeowners not just against a bust but also against drops in the market value of the home.
That is a lot of unbuilt houses, apartment buildings, offices, and stores - and it is a truly radical disconnect between the size of the recent construction boom and the size of the current construction bust.
As long as capital flows remain large relative to the liquid assets held by national governments and are easily reversible, the international economy will be hostage to spectacular boom and bust cycles.
The strength of the dollar has similarly distorted investment decisions, and the same kinds of exaggerated swings in exchange rates in emerging markets have contributed to the boom-bust cycles in Asia and Latin America in the past five years.
The recent oil boom could easily turn to bust, especially if global economic activity slows.
Moreover, the accumulation of debt in China - 71 percentage points of GDP over the last five years - has been far sharper than in Japan, where the debt level grew by only 16 percentage points over the five-year period before its bust.
When a boom or bust lasts for such a long time, it begins to seem like it will continue indefinitely.
SAN FRANCISCO: The dot.com boom may have gone bust for the moment, but that is not stopping governments from wanting to encourage their own high-tech industries.
To prevent the EU's single market from going bust, national policymakers must implement industrial restructuring policies in tandem.
Its banks avoided the boom-bust cycle of the past decade, having learned from the banking collapse in 2000-2001.
To say that the gold market displays all of the classic features of a bubble gone bust is to oversimplify.
Over the last three decades, prices in the US and Europe have tended to follow three slow-moving, related boom-bust cycles.
As the boom turned to bust, the losses threatened to overwhelm the capacity of the Spanish state, and the problem became European, because it threatened the very survival of the euro.
All of these factors suggest that an African financial bust is possible.
His Republican Party opponents complained that Obama's proposals would bust the budget.
First, everywhere there is a sense of disgust at the way the recent boom seemed to privatize gains while the subsequent bust socialized losses.
Put differently, the bust that follows years of a debt-fueled boom leaves behind an economy that supplies too much of the wrong kind of good relative to the changed demand.
Frighteningly, the new Japanese government is still trying to deal with the aftermath of the country's two-decade-old property bust.
But there is at least one important sense in which America's current construction bust suggests that they are wrong.
And we found that counties with less bank competition experienced a milder farmland boom, and therefore a smaller bust in the years before the Great Depression.
The bust, with its banking problems and unemployment, is likely to last for most of the coming decade, depressing growth in all those countries which looked so strong in 2008.
The next bust can be avoided only if emerging markets manage the dream of homeownership better than the US and Europe.
It is a historic relic, bust but still bragging.
States can go bust just like companies, but, unlike companies, they don't disappear when that happens.
Let's take a case study, the last generalized boom-bust cycle in commodity prices, which caused these prices generally to rise (more or less) from some time in the 1960's until the 1980's, and then generally to fall until the mid-1990's.
Regulators might consider imposing pro-cyclical equity requirements - increasing the equity percentage in boom times in order to offset losses in the inevitable bust times.
The increase in housing prices during the 1980's is now viewed as the veritable model of a boom cycle turned bust.
But what still needs to be explained is the timing of Japan's boom and bust over the last 15 years, as well as the reasons for the duration of the country's ongoing slump.

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