buster

Substantiv

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   Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing.

   Now death, I pray thee what is it, but a buster of bonds; a destruction of toyle?

   Rothlin was described... by the papers as the buster of the bandit ring.

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   SlangForming compounds denoting a team, weapon, or device specialized in the destruction of the first element.

   German ‘balloon busters’ attack the Dover barrage.

   Our main purpose in further experimentation with nuclear bombs is not... to make city-busters more horrible.

   B-2 bombers are the only plane capable of carrying the Massive Ordinance Penetrator, which experts have highlighted as the only type of bomb potentially capable of destroying Iran’s underground Fordow nuclear facility. Each B-2 bomber is able to carry two of these “bunker buster” bombs, which weigh an impressive 30,000 pounds each.

   The bombs used in the strikes were GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrators, known as a “bunker busters,” two sources familiar with the operation said.

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   veraltendSomeone who or something that 'breaks', tames, or overpowers a specified person or thing. A broncobuster.

   The buster must be careful to keep well away from sheds and timber.

   Some busters caught their horses for the first time over the head, and snubbed or choked them until they fell gasping.

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   SlangSomeone who or something that 'breaks', tames, or overpowers a specified person or thing. Forming compounds denoting an agent or agency tasked with reducing or eliminating the first element.

   Men nicknamed him the ‘Booze Buster’, and cartoonists loved to picture him, revolver in hand,... fighting the demon rum.

   The professional fraud-busters [of the art world].

   New York City traffic agents have become Gridlock Busters and cigarette foes are smokebusters.

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   veraltendSomeone or something remarkable, especially for being loud, large, etc.

   ‘I had to clean this old roarer,’ continued the ‘editor’... as he wiped the barrel of his pistol. ‘She's a buster, I tell you.’

   What a buster of a lunch it turned out to be.

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   veraltendSomeone or something remarkable, especially for being loud, large, etc. A form of address, particularly of men: guy, dude, fella, mack, buddy, loser. (Originally as 'old buster'.)

   That's generous, old buster.

   An extremely wealthy old buster.

   Calvin: I'm going to watch TV all night. Mom: That's what you think, buster!

   ‘Careful, buster,’ she said. ‘I've got a knife in my hand.’

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   veraltetA loaf of bread.

   Three penny busters, and a whole kit-full of winegar and mustard.

   An 8oz. loaf of brown bread... goes by the name of ‘buster’, I suppose on account of the way they blow you out.

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   veraltetA drinking spree, a binge.

   They were on a buster, and were taken up by the police.

   All off for a buster, armstrong, hollering down the street.

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   veraltendA gale, a strong wind; (especially Australia) a southerly buster.

   ‘This is a buster,’ i.e. a powerful or heavy wind.

   The Buster and Brickfielder: austral red-dust blizzard and red-hot Simoom.

   When the barometer drops rapidly... watch out for a strong sou'wester. A buster can be on you in a flash.

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    A heavy fall; (also performing arts) a staged fall, a pratfall.

    Dainty... came down ‘a buster’ at the last hurdle, and Scots Grey cantered in by himself.

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    A molting crab.

    In that state he is called a ‘Buster’, bursting his shell.

    Restaurant August... serves contemporary French cuisine prepared with Louisiana ingredients like buster crabs, shrimp and oysters.

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    SlangA cheat's die whose sides bear only certain combinations of spots, so that undesirable values can never be rolled.

    Tops and Bottoms (also Tops, Busters, Ts, Mis-spots): These are the dice used by the professional cheats.

    To make six-eight, natural dice, or busters, he would take unspotted dice and then grind and color only the spots he wanted.

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