bust
verbenomadjectifnomcourant dans les dialogues
- Canada//bʌst//
- Australie//bɐst//
- //bʊst//
To break.
verbe
- 1
To break.
I busted my cooker while trying to fix it.
- 2
argotTo arrest (someone or a group of people) for a crime.
Aaron got busted by the feds for leaking confidential government documents on Reddit.
- 3
argotTo catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.
- 4
argotTo debunk, dispel (a belief).
We want to bust the myth that real men don't eat quiche.
- 5
An emphatic synonym of do or get.
He busted huge air off that jump!
- 6
familierTo reduce in rank.
He busted him down to patrolman for insubordination.
If Steinkamp doesn't take off that hat and stop messing around, I'm gonna bust him into a PFC.
- 7
To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
- 8
To lose all of one's chips.
- 9
To exceed a score of 21.
- 10
argotTo break in (an animal).
A few weeks later, Richard was killed accidentally while busting a wild mustang […]
- 11
argotTo have sex with (a woman or girl) for the first time, to take another's virginity.
Smith hears Nancy's protests - "Don't ... no, please don't." - when Hicock menaces her with "You ever had a man?" Finding Hicock rubbing her thigh as she whimpers in fear, Smith confronts him about his intentions, and Hicock says, "First, I'm going to bust that little girl." Smith tells him no, but Hicock replies, "What do you care? You can bust her too."
- 12
argotTo ejaculate; to eject semen or to squirt.
I busted a fat one just wackin' it to the selfie she sent me.
After ten times we fucked, I think I bust twice He was nice, kept my neck filled with ice
- 13
For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
The temptation to squeeze in a favourite headline that busts by using the flexibility of new technology is often very strong.
If your headline busts (breaks the confines of the layout) you will know straightaway. Similarly, the computer will inform you, in terms of the number of lines, how much longer or shorter the copy is in relation to the space allotted.
- 14
argotTo refute an established opening.
So is the King's Gambit really busted?
- 15
argotTo shoot (a gun).
He busted his glock.
- 16
argotTo attack, hit or insult (someone).
He's always busting on you.
- 17
argotTo do or perform; to move quickly.
Bust a left turn.
Étymologie
From Middle English busten, a variant of bursten, bresten (“to burst”). Compare Low German basten, a variant of barsten (“to burst”). Cognate with burst and bost.
nom
- 1
argotThe act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
a narcotics bust
- 2
argotA police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
- 3
argotA failed enterprise; a bomb.
- 4
argotA refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
- 5
argotA disappointment.
Paris was a bust. They wouldn't even let us see the Mona Lisa.
- 6
A player who fails to meet expectations.
- 7
The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
- 8
vieilliA spree, unrestrained revel, or wild party.
adjectif
- 1
argotWithout any money, broke, bankrupt.
After months of financial problems, the company finally went bust.
nom
- 1
A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
- 2
A woman's breasts; the circumference of her chest measured around the breasts.
Étymologie
Etymology tree Latin būstum Italian bustobor. French bustebor. English bust Borrowed from French buste, from Italian busto (“torso, upper body”), assumed to stem from Latin bustum (“funeral monument, tomb," originally "funeral pyre, place where corpses are burned”). Perhaps shortened from Latin ambustum, neuter of ambustus (“scorched”), past participle of ambūrō (“burn all over, scorch”), from ambi- (“around”) + ūrō (“to burn”). Compare Old Norse beysti.
Formes
- pluriel
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- passé
- busted
- participe passé
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- participe présent
- busting
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
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