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Bust-up

Definition: Bust-up

Bust-up

Noun

1. A serious quarrel (especially one that ends a friendship).

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


Crosswords: Bust-up

English words defined with "bust-up": bust-up takeover. (references)

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Modern Usage: Bust-up

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Buster's Bust-Up (1926)

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

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Usage Frequency: Bust-up

"Bust-up" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bust-up" is used about 67 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%6740,952

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Bust-up

Language Translations for "bust-up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

胸像 (bust). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

흉상 위로. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ust-upbay

   

Thai

  

การแตกร้าว, การโต้เถียงรุนแรง. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Bust-up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-p-s-t-u-u"

-2 letters: bust, buts, pubs, puts, stub, tubs, tups.

-3 letters: bus, but, pub, pus, put, sub, sup, tub, tup, ups, uts.

-4 letters: up, us, ut.

 Words containing the letters "b-p-s-t-u-u"
 

+3 letters: bullpouts, bumptious.

 

+4 letters: buttercups, suboptimum, subproduct.

 

+5 letters: bumptiously, submultiple, subproducts, subsumption, supersubtle.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bust-up


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 75 73 74 2D 75 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01110101 01110011 01110100 00101101 01110101 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#117 &#115 &#116 &#45 &#117 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0075 0073 0074 002D 0075 0070

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36878586158782

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Bust-up"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Chinese

字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , 중국

Korean

사 , 의, 번역韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , 한국, ชาวเกาหลี

Thai

พจนานุกรม泰國 , 泰文 , 泰 , 泰語 , 泰国, 타이 말, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translation英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , 영국, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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