Bust

Definition: Bust

Bust

Adjective

1. Lacking funds; "`skint' is a British slang term".

Noun

1. A complete failure; "the play was a dismal flop".

2. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person.

3. An occasion for excessive eating or drinking; "they went on a bust that lasted three days".

Verb

1. Ruin completely; "He busted my radio!".

2. Search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on; "The police raided the crack house".

3. Separate or cause to separate abruptly; "The rope snapped"; "tear the paper".

4. Go to pieces; "The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely".

5. Break open or apart suddenly and forcefully; "The dam burst".

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

Date "bust" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Weather

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

Synonyms: Bust

Amusement

Festivity, merrymaking; party; (social gathering); blowout, hullabaloo, hoedown, bat, bum, bust, clambake, donation party, fish fry, jamboree, kantikoy, nautch, randy, squantum, tear, Turnerfest, yule log; fete, festival, gala, ridotto; revels, revelry, reveling; carnival, brawl, saturnalia, high jinks; feast, banquet; (food); regale, symposium, wassail; carouse, carousal; jollification, junket, wake, Irish wake, picnic, fete champetre, regatta, field day; treat.

Representation

Figure, figure head; puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay-figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust; statue, statuette.

Crosswords: Bust

Albanian (bodice, bust, torso), Faeroese (brush), Romanian (breasts, bust, half-length portrait, torso).

Captain Diel ordered me to go with you on that bust because you needed bomb squad back up but once again you screwed me and you screwed yourself (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf)

Come bust a move where the games are played (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner)

These people bust their asses off every day for us. These tips are what keeps them alive (Reservoir Dogs; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino)

No, I'll join this converation on the proviso that we stop bitching about people talking about wigs, dresses, bust sizes, penises, drugs, night clubs, and bloody Abba (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; writing credit: Stephan Elliott.)

I bust my hump all week working (Thank God It's Friday; writing credit: Armyan Bernstein)

I'MMA RUN TILL I BUST MY GUN AND EMPTY THE CLIP (Come Back In One Piece; performing artist: Aaliyah)

Lisa know we kick it when we bust the dust, (Blow Your Mind; performing artist: Baha Men)

Hot like wasabe when I bust rhymes (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

I wanna bust all your balloons (Hook; performing artist: Blues Traveler)

Jewelry cut precision like I bust (What'Chu Like; performing artist: Da Brat)

Monte Carlo or Bust (1969)

Hollywood or Bust (1956)

Californy 'er Bust (1945)

California or Bust (1941)

South Pole or Bust (1934)

Bust A Move (performing artist: Young M.C.)

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

Books

• Retroland or Bust! (Jimmy Neutron) (reference)

• Sugar Bust for Life!... With the Brennans: Cookbook and Companion Guide (reference)

• Thailand's Boom and Bust (reference)

• The Bernini Bust (Art History Mystery) (reference)

• The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Bust (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Big Bust Ecstasy (reference)

• Denise Austin - Hit the Spot: Arms & Bust (reference)

• Hollywood or Bust (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Beethoven Or Bust (reference)

• Boom Dot Bust (reference)

• Bust a Nut (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Super Bust a Move (reference)

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

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

Marble bust of Hygeia, Goddess of Health, which now stands in front of CDC Building 1 on Clifton Road. Dedicated in December, 1970. Sculpture. Credit: CDC.

The unveiling ceremony of the bust of Hygeia. (left to right), Archbishop Lakovas, Ambassador B. Vitsaxis, Dr. John E Skandalakis, and R. David J. Sencer. Credit: CDC.

Eisenhower Unveils Marshall Bust. Credit: NASA.

Bust of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd at McMurdo Station. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

The old entrance to Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, England. The bust of Robert Falcon Scott is evident in this picture. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Volunteers working at a cultural event about Oregon's history. Sign in background reads, "For Oregon or Bust. Credit: Unknown.

Develop your bust in 15 days new way home treatment. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Drugs Are A Bust Studies A Must! : Get High On Sports...Not Drugs. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Bust, attributed to John S. Cogdell (1778-1857), in the U.S. National Museum, 1945. Credit: NAVY.

Boy studying at a desk with lamp, bust, and other things. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He turned towards a bust of the Duke de Berry which stood upon the mantel, and bowed to it profoundly with a sort of peculiar majesty

Fella like that bust the holiness

There is not a nail to hang a picture on, nor a shelf to receive the bust of a hero or a saint

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "bust": baby bust ♦ bust for steam ironing ♦ bust measurement ♦ bust out ♦ bust shot ♦ bust this ♦ bust up ♦ go bust ♦ or bust ♦ portrait bust ♦ to go bust. Additional references.

Beginning with "bust": bust-bodice, bust-boom-bust, bust-booster, bust-enhanced, bust-length, bust-out, bust-up, bust-up takeover, bust-ups.

Ending with "bust": boom-and-bust, boom-bust, boom-to-bust, bust-boom-bust, drug-bust, drugs-bust, win-or-bust.

Containing "bust": all-bust-and-bum.

Albanian

bust (bodice, torso), dështim (abortion, anticlimax, collapse, come down, crash, cropper, discomfiture, fail, failing, failure, fiasco, fizzle, flash in the pan, flop, frost, frustration, licking, miscarriage, no go, reverse). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مفلس (bankrupt, broke, busty, down at heel, hard up, impecunious, insolvent, kaput, penniless, punk, ruined, unowned), ‏نزل الرتبة العسكرية, ‏لكمة عنيفة, ‏لكم (box, knock, punch, slug, sock, strike, to you, yours), ‏حفلة سكر و عربدة, ‏تمثال نصفي, ‏تمثال (dummy, effigy, image, memorial, monument, statue, tombstone), ‏صدر المرأة (bosom), ‏خفق يفشل (flunk, miscarry), ‏خفق (baulk, beat, beating, collapse, come, come to grief, dilute, fall, fizzle out, flap, flummox, flunk, go by the board, go wrong, goof, misfire, miss, muddle, pit-a-pat, pound, pulsate, pulsation, throb, whip), ‏إفلاس (bankruptcy, failure, fall, going into liquidation, insolvency, smash), ‏إخفاق (baulk, deadlock, failure, fizzle out, frost, lemon, miscarriage, miss, screw, setback, smash, turkey, unsuccess, wall, wrack), ‏أصاب بالإفلاس. (various references)

Bulgarian 

взривявам (blast, shoot), пръсвам се, пълно проваляне, банкрут (bankruptcy, breakdown, insolvency), бюст (bosom, bubs), арестувам (apprehend, arrest, attach, bring in, impound, nab, nail, nip, pick up, pinch, pull, rap, restrain, round up, run in, secure, seize, take in, take up), експлодирам (blow off, blow up, detonate, explode, fulminate), женски гърди, правя внезапен обиск, обяздвам (break in, gentle, train), съсипвам (prostrate, ruin, scathe, spifflicate, total, wear down, wear out, wrack), гръдна обиколка, фалирал (bankrupt, insolvent, lame duck, on the rocks, played out, washed up), разжалвам (cast, degrade, displume, reduce), разорявам (beggar, bring to ruin, go bust, ravage, ruin, waste), удрям (bang against, bash, beat, biff, blast, bruise, catch, douse, hammer, heel, hit, impact, jam on, knap, knock, lash, lay, peg at, plump, poke, pole-ax, pound, ram, set, shoot, slam, slam on, smash, smite, strike, strike in, thunder, wallop, zap), счупвам (fracture, pip, smash, snap), съсипан (burnt-out, done, prostrate, shaky, washed up), запиване (tear). (various references)

Chinese 

胸像 (bust-up), 半身像 (half-length photo or portrait). (various references)

Czech

bysta, zkrachovaný (bankrupt), zabásnout, udìlat razii, rozbitý (bloody, broken, broken down, bumpy, haywire, out of action, smashed), rozbít (break, break up, crack, dash, destroy, pitch, shatter, smash, sunder, wreck), razie (raid, swoop), prsa (breast, breaststroke), praštit (bash, belt, catch, fling, hit, hurl, knock, slosh, slug, strike, swipe), poprsí, krach (collapse, failure, smash), flám (razzle-dazzle, spree), degradovat (degrade, demote, displume, downgrade, reduce, relegate), ž.míra přes prsa. (various references)

Danish

buste. (various references)

Dutch

buste, borstbeeld. (various references)

Farsi 

مجسمه نیم تنه , ورشکست کردن , ورشکست شدن (Smash), ترکیدگی , سینه (Bosom, Breast, Heart), خردگشتن , انفجار (Blast, Blowout, Blowup, Burst, Eruption, Explosion, Gust, Outburst, Pop), بیچاره کردن (Beggar), بالاتنه . (various references)

Finnish

rintakuva (half-length picture). (various references)

French

buste. (various references)

German

büste (dressmaker's dummy, tailor's dummy). (various references)

Greek 

προτομή. (various references)

Hebrew 

לפוצץ (blast, blow, blow up, detonate, explode, let off), להתפוצץ (blast, burst, detonate, explode, go off), פצוץ (blast, burst, detonation, explosion), פסל ראש, פסל (sculpture, statuary, statue), חלטורה (gig, hackwork, shoddy work). (various references)

Hungarian

mellszobor (half-length portrait), mellbőség (bust measurement, bust size, chest measure), mell (apples, boobs, bosom, breast, can, chest, knockers), lefokozás (degradation, demotion, disrating), kebel (bosom, breast), felsőtest, csőd (breakdown, break-down, carey street, failure, liquidation, squib). (various references)

Indonesian

patung sebatas dada, menurunkan pangkat, kegagalan (abortive attempt, failure). (various references)

Italian

busto (body, corset, girdle, half length portrait, torso, trunk). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

胸像 , 半身像 (half-length statue or portrait), バスに乗る (bask, basket, basketball, Basque, bass-treble, bastard fake bunt, bath buzzer, bath towel, bathrobe, bathroom, bathtub, birth control, bus lane, bus stop, bust pad, bustline, bypass capacitor, the way a bra fits, to take the bus), 懐　 (bosom, breast pocket, purse), 懐 (bosom, pocket, purse), 上半身 (upper half of body). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

バスト , きょうぞう (math image by inversion, reflected image, scripture house), ふところ (bosom, pocket, purse), じょうはんしん (upper half of body), はんしんぞう (half-length statue or portrait). (various references)

Korean 

흉상. (various references)

Manx

sthowran (laughing stock), sheeinaghyn, keeaghyn, jalloo (altarpiece, carving, drawing, effigy, figure, guy, icon, idol, image, joss, painting, picture, sculpture, statue), brisht (bankrupt, breached, broke, cracked, deposed, deprived, discontinuous, fragmentary, insolvent, ruined, ruptured, shipwrecked, smashed, stony-broke, wrecked). (various references)

Pig Latin

ustbay.(various references)

Portuguese

busto. (various references)

Romanian

bust (breasts, half-length portrait, torso), piept de femeie, piept (bosom, breast, brisket, chest, heart), chef (bacchanalia, banquet, binge, blow out, booze, carousal, damp, debauch, do, drinking bout, fancy, feast, good cheer, libation, racket, relish, revel, spread, spree, whim, wish). (various references)

Russian 

халтура (hackwork, potboiler, quickie, schlock, trash), ошибка (aberration, bungle, error, failing, fallacy, fault, faux pas, gaffe, inaccuracy, lapse, misdeed, misstep, mistake, muff, slip, slip up, slipup, slip-up, stumble, trip), бюст (bubs). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

bista, neuspeh (abort, boner, failure, fizzle, muff), krah (crash), grudi (bosom, breast, chest, dickey). (various references)

Spanish

busto (half length portrait). (various references)

Swedish

byst (busts), barm (bosom, breast, heart). (various references)

Thai

นม (cow juice, moo juice). (various references)

Turkish

büst (effigy), başarısızlık (abortion, balk, bankruptcy, baulk, bomb, collapse, cropper, defeat, dud, failure, fizzle, flivver, frost, ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, inefficacy, miscarriage, reverse, setback, throwback, unsuccess, washout), becerememek (boggle, botch, bungle, do badly, fail, goof, goof up, make sorry show, muddle, muff), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), bozulmak (addle, break down, break up, collapse, conk, decay, decline, deteriorate, disrupt, dwindle, ebb, fail, get out of hand, get out of order, go bad, go haywire, go off, go sour, go under, go wrong, lose face, perish, retrograde, retrogress, rot, sour, spoil, stale, taint, turn, turn sour, upset), iflas etmek (be in carey street, belly up, break, burst up, crash, fail, go bankrupt, go belly up, go bust, go smash, go to rack and ruin, go to the wall, go under, smash), cümbüş (bash, bender, binge, blast, blow out, booze, booze-up, burst up, Buster, carousal, festivity, high jinks, jamboree, jollification, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, metal mandolin, racket, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, riot, saturnalia, spree), fiyasko (bomb, debacle, dud, failure, fiasco, fizzle, flivver, frost, Turkey, washout), alem (bat, bender, binge, blast, blind, blow out, booze, booze-up, burst up, Buster, 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), iflas (bankruptcy, crash, failure, in carey street, insolvency, ruin, smash, smash up), vurmak (bang, bat, beat, beat down, bruise, catapult, catch, chime, clap, clip, clout, dash, deal, grass, gun, hit, impinge, inflict, kayo, knock, land, lay out, lay to, Lodge, Mall, nail, pack, percuss, pip, plant, plonk, plug, plunk, pound, prick, pummel, punch, putt, ram, shoot, shoot off, slog, smash, sock, strike, stroke, stub, swat, swinge, switch, whack, zap), iflas ettirmek (bankrupt, ruin), kırmak (bear down, blight, breach, break, break down, chill, chop, crack, cut, dampen, discount, fracture, freeze, give offence, give offense, hurt, lacerate, offend, outrage, pique, put off, put smb.'s nose out of joint, quench, reduce, refract, Rive, ruffle smb.'s feelings, rupture, set up, shatter, skip, snap, snap off, split, stave in, sting, touch, vanquish), patlatmak (blast, blow up, detonate, explode, let off, make blow up, make burst, make explode, pop, puncture, set off, touch off), polis baskını, rütbe indirmek, sona ermek (be at an end, bust up, cease, come to a head, come to an end, die, discontinue, end, end off, expire, finish, leave off, quit, run out, terminate, wind up), tartışmak (altercate, argue, bat around, Bicker, brawl, canvass, challenge, contend, controvert, debate, discuss, dispute, have a row with, have a set-to, have words with smb., jangle, join issue with smb., moot, negotiate, set to, spar, take issue with smb., wrangle), tutuklamak (apprehend, arrest, imprison, jail, Nick, pick up, pull in, rap, seize, take into custody, take smb. in charge), göğüs (booby, bosom, breast, chest, mammillary, mammo-, pectoral, thorax). (various references)

Ukrainian

ударяти (beat, bump, bunt, dab, hit, knock, smite, strike), розорити (bankrupt), груди (breast, chest), запій, зламати (bear down, break down, bring down), збанкрутувати (be out of business, become bankrupt, break one's back, go bankrupt, go bust, go into liquidation), збанкрутілий (bankrupt, failed), бюст. (various references)

Vietnamese 

vỡ nợ (bankrupt). (various references)

bustum. (various references)

busto. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bust": bustard, bustards, busted, buster, busters, bustic, bustics, bustier, bustiers, bustiest, busting, bustle, bustled, bustles, bustline, bustlines, bustling, bustlingly, busts, busty. (additional references)

Words ending with "bust": combust, robust. (additional references)

Words containing "bust": antifilibuster, antifilibusters, blockbuster, blockbusters, blockbusting, blockbustings, broncobuster, broncobusters, combusted, combustibilities, combustibility, combustible, combustibles, combustibly, combusting, combustion, combustions, combustive, combustor, combustors, combusts, filibuster, filibustered, filibusterer, filibusterers, filibustering, filibusters, gangbuster, gangbusters, incombustibilities, incombustibility, incombustible, incombustibles, noncombustible, noncombustibles, precombustion, precombustions, robusta, robustas, robuster, robustest, robustious, robustiously, robustiousness, robustiousnesses, robustly, robustness, robustnesses, rumbustious, rumbustiously, rumbustiousness. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bust" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aust, bapst, besht, bestv, bict, bisit, bks, blusty, bnst, boqt, bost, Bostg, boust, Brust, bucato, Buesst, Buet, buft, buist, buit, bujt, Bukta, bult, bumt, busch, Buset, busht, busi, buso, Busst, buste, Busti, Busto, buyt, Buzu, iust, ubet, ust, xbus. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: buts, stub, tubs.

-1 letter: bus, but, sub, tub, uts.

-2 letters: us, ut.

+1 letter: abuts, bhuts, bouts, bunts, burst, busts, busty, butes, butts, stubs, tabus, tsuba, tubas, tubes.

+2 letters: beauts, besmut, bestud, bluest, bluets, blunts, blurts, bruits, brunts, brutes, bundts, burets, bursts, busted, buster, bustic, bustle, buteos, butles, buttes, bututs, butyls, cubist, cubits, debuts, doubts, obtuse, rebuts, robust, sacbut, sagbut, stubby, subito, sublet, sublot, submit, subnet, subset, subtle, subtly, tabuns, thumbs, tubers, tubist, turbos.