Buster

Definition: Buster

Buster

Noun

1. An informal form of address for a man; "Say, fellow, what are you doing?"; "Hey buster, what's up?".

2. A robust child.

3. A person who breaks horses.

4. A person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something; "dam buster"; "sanction buster"; crime buster".

5. A person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "buster" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)

Note: Buster \Bus"ter\ (b[u^]s"t[~e]r), noun. Something huge; a roistering blade; also, a spree. [Slang, United States]. (references)

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Buster

Crosswords: Buster

Oooh, like this requires telekinetic communication, Buster. I'll have to, like, meld with the meal (Tiny Toon Adventures; writing credit: Charles Adler; Pat Allee)

Now you just hold on, Buster. (Plan 9 from Outer Space; writing credit: Edward D. Wood Jr.)

Because the busta kept me out of handcuffs, he didn't just run back to the fort, the buster brought me back (The Fast and the Furious; writing credit: Gary Scott Thompson)

Hey, I went shopping, Buster, to furnish your perfect house, to build your perfect image, to be your perfect Beverly Hills wife (Troop Beverly Hills; writing credit: Pamela Norris)

Look buster you're at fault and I can prove it. I got a disinterested witness here, my neighbor and best friend Barney Rubble (The Flintstones; writing credit: R.S. Allen; Sam Bobrick)

Also known as a buster ("No Scrubs"; performing artist: TLC)

Buster and Billie (1974)

Crime Buster (1968)

Buster the Ruster (1967)

Cirkus Buster (1961)

The Buster Keaton Story (1957)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Buster Keaton Remembered (reference)

• Buster Midnight's Cafe (reference)

• Confessions of a Union Buster (reference)

• Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton (reference)

• The Adventures of Buster Bear (Dover Children's Thrift Classics) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Art of Buster Keaton (reference)

• Big Boobs Buster (reference)

• The Art of Buster Keaton, Boxed Set 1 (The Saphead / Three Ages / Our Hospitality & Sherlock Jr.) (reference)

• America's Atomic Bomb Tests Buster Jangle (reference)

• The Art of Buster Keaton- V.7 Go West, The Scarecrow and The Paleface (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Buster Poindexter (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Buster Bros. Collection (reference)

• Buster Brothers (reference)

• Tiny Toons: Buster Saves the Day (reference)

• Stomp Clutter Buster Desktop Organizer (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Avalanche 315 Drift Buster (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Photo #6 of 8. Having reached the "buster" molt stage, a Maryland blue crab , Callinectes sapidus, sheds its shell. The genus and species mean tasty beautiful swimmer. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Photo #7 of 8. Having reached the "buster" molt stage, a Maryland blue crab , Callinectes sapidus, sheds its shell. The genus and species mean tasty beautiful swimmer. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Photo #4 of 8. Having reached the "buster" molt stage, a Maryland blue crab , Callinectes sapidus, sheds its shell. The genus and species mean tasty beautiful swimmer. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Photo #5 of 8. Having reached the "buster" molt stage, a Maryland blue crab , Callinectes sapidus, sheds its shell. The genus and species mean tasty beautiful swimmer. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Buster and Tige here again It probably was good for the lad! / / R.F. Outcault. Credit: Library of Congress.

At the Olympic tryouts, Cincinnati, Ohio. Left to right: Duke F. Kahanamoku, Clarence "Buster" Crabbe, Harold "Stubby" Kruger, Johnny Weissmueler, Judge Elmer F. Hunsicker, Paul Goss, Mrs. Mabel Fitzmorris, Mrs. Ella Layne Brown, Mrs. Carolyn Wayman, and. Credit: Library of Congress.

Production. Shell loading. Nonchalantly loading a two-ton "block buster" at a large Midwest plant. Every precaution is taken, but a certain stoicism is required for this job. The workmen fill each end of the bomb with TNT, delivered "hot," and the remaini. Credit: Library of Congress.

Buster Keaton, #22. Credit: Library of Congress.

Buster Brown. "Pull, Tige, I hear Mamma coming". Credit: Library of Congress.

Buster is coming. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "buster": baby buster ♦ block buster ♦ bronco buster ♦ Buster Keaton ♦ clot buster ♦ middle buster ♦ penny buster ♦ safe buster ♦ southerly buster. Additional references.

Ending with "buster": block-buster, Bronco-buster, damme-buster, gang-buster, stress-buster, tank-buster.

Bulgarian 

Момче (Jack), Необикновено яко �"ете, Необикновено Силно �"ете, �"ругар (Comrade, Cully). (various references)

Chinese 

�'�头切断机. (various references)

Danish

rulleplov (brush plow, grub breaker plow, muckland plow, new ground plough, prairie breaker, prairie buster plow, reclamation plough), lille kutte (baby cut). (various references)

Dutch

bosploeg (brush plow, grub breaker plow, muckland plow, new ground plough, prairie breaker, prairie buster plow, reclamation plough), voorgevormd inbraakgat (baby cut), diepploeg (breaker, breaker plow, brush plow, deep tilling plow, drainage plough, grub breaker plow, heavy plough, muckland plow, new ground plough, prairie breaker, prairie buster plow, reclamation plough). (various references)

French

prebouchon, charrue défricheuse (prairie buster plow), avant-bouchon. (various references)

German

Voreinbruch (baby cut), Umbruchpflug (brush plow, grub breaker plow, muckland plow, new ground plough, prairie breaker, prairie buster plow, reclamation plough), Rodepflug (brush plow, grub breaker plow, muckland plow, new ground plough, prairie breaker, prairie buster plow, reclamation plough), Meister (adept, boss, champion, chief, foreman, Lord, Mac, maestro, master, masters, showman), kleiner Einbruch (baby cut), Hilfseinbruch (baby cut), Freundchen (buddy, Matey). (various references)

Greek 

εκχερσωτικό άροτρο (brush plow, grub breaker plow, muckland plow, new ground plough, prairie breaker, prairie buster plow, reclamation plough). (various references)

Hungarian

mulatás (bend, carousal, frolicking, gay life, high jinks, marry-making), kisfiú (small boy), fiú (boy, bub, bucko, groom, hard case, he, lad, son, yob, yobbo), óriási dolog (thumper), öcskös, öcsi (junior). (various references)

Italian

aratro dissodatore (brush plow, grub breaker plow, muckland plow, new ground plough, prairie breaker, prairie buster plow, reclamation plough, ripper). (various references)

Korean 

파괴하�" 사람. (various references)

Pig Latin

usterbay.(various references)

Portuguese

núcleo de caldeira (baby cut), charrua para arroteia (brush plow, grub breaker plow, muckland plow, new ground plough, prairie breaker, prairie buster plow, reclamation plough). (various references)

Romanian

franzeluţã (cake bread, penny buster). (various references)

Russian 

кутеж (binge, rant, razzle, razzle-dazzle, spree, whoopee), попойка (booze-up, carousal, carouse, debauch, drunk, fuddle, guzzle, hellbender, razzle-dazzle, rouse, wassail, wet night). (various references)

Spanish

precono de franqueo (baby cut), arado roturador (brush plow, grub breaker plow, muckland plow, new ground plough, prairie breaker, prairie buster plow, reclamation plough), arado para matorrales (brush plow, grub breaker plow, muckland plow, new ground plough, prairie breaker, prairie buster plow, reclamation plough), arado de desmontar (brush plow, grub breaker plow, muckland plow, new ground plough, prairie breaker, prairie buster plow, reclamation plough). (various references)

Swedish

Friskus. (various references)

Thai

คำเรียกชายที่ไม่ชอบ. (various references)

Turkish

Zorla Açan Kimse, Herif (blighter, bloke, bozo, bugger, cove, cuss, customer, Dick, dog, fellow, guy, Johnny, josser, mug, sod, stooge, varlet), Cümbüş (bash, bender, binge, blast, blow out, booze, booze-up, burst up, bust, carousal, festivity, high jinks, jamboree, jollification, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, metal mandolin, racket, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, riot, saturnalia, spree), Alem (bat, bender, binge, blast, blind, blow out, booze, booze-up, burst up, bust, carousal, class of beings, condition, creation, entertainment, jollification, junket, kingdom, nature, orgy, party, potation, potations, razzle-dazzle, realm, revel, revelry, riot, rollicking time, spree, state, universe, whoopee, world), Adam (bean, bird, bozo, chap, cookie, cooky, cuss, Dick, dog, employee, feller, fellow, fellow man, guy, Jack, joker, man, person). (various references)

Ukrainian

Щось Незвичайне, �"улянка (Barney). (various references)

Vietnamese 

bữa chén no say (bustle), cái kỳ lạ bữa tiệc linh đình (bustle), đạn phá. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "buster": busters. (additional references)

Words ending with "buster": antifilibuster, blockbuster, broncobuster, filibuster, gangbuster, robuster, sodbuster, trustbuster. (additional references)

Words containing "buster": antifilibusters, blockbusters, broncobusters, filibustered, filibusterer, filibusterers, filibustering, filibusters, gangbusters, sodbusters, trustbusters. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Buster" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baster, basterd, Bastert, Batsuur, Benster, Bewsher, bister, bistery, bits'er, blster, Bossert, bouster, boxster, buescheri, buete, Buiter, Bulter, burster, Buscher, buser, Buset, Busser, bustarp, bustce, buste, bustee, Bustek, Busti, bustiere, bustler, Busto, bustor, busyer, buter, butir, buxtorf, uster. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: brutes, burets, rebuts, tubers.

-1 letter: brute, buret, burse, burst, butes, rebus, rebut, rubes, suber, trues, tuber, tubes.

-2 letters: best, bets, brut, burs, bust, bute, buts, erst, rebs, rest, rets, rube, rubs, rues, ruse, rust, ruts, stub, suer, suet, sure, true, tube, tubs, urbs, user.

-3 letters: bet, bur, bus, but, ers, reb, res, ret, rub, rue, rut, ser, set.

+1 letter: arbutes, becrust, becurst, bluster, brunets, bunters, burnets, bursate, bursted, burster, busters, bustier, butlers, butters, obtuser, rubiest, subrent, subtler, subvert, tubbers.

+2 letters: abstruse, abutters, baluster, barguest, becrusts, blurters, blusters, blustery, briquets, bruiters, bruskest, burettes, burkites, burliest, burriest, bursters, burstone, burthens, bustiers, butchers, buttress, doubters, embrutes, imbrutes, obtrudes, perturbs, redoubts, resubmit, robuster, rustable, saboteur, stubbier, stumbler, subentry, suberect, subrents, subtiler, subtrend, subtribe, subverts, terbiums, tribunes, tributes, troubles, tuberose, tuberous, tumblers, tumbrels, turbeths, turbines, urbanest.