verb, noun, adjective
verb (bust, bust) or (busted, busted) [VN] (informal)
1 to break sth:
I bust my camera. * The lights are busted. * Come out, or I'll bust the door down!
2 ~ sb/sth (for sth) (of the police) to suddenly enter a place and search it or arrest sb:
He's been busted for drugs.
3 (especially AmE) to make sb lower in military rank as a punishment
IDIOMS
bust a gut (doing sth / to do sth) (informal) to make a great effort to do sth:
It's a problem which nobody is going to bust a gut trying to solve.
...or bust (informal) used to say that you will try very hard to get somewhere or achieve sth:
For him it's the Olympics or bust.
PHRASALVERBS
bust up (informal) (of a couple, friends, partners, etc.) to quarrel and separate:
They bust up after five years of marriage.
relatednounBUST-UP
bust sth<->up (informal) to make sth end by disturbing or ruining it:
It was his drinking that bust up his marriage.
Part of speech: noun
1 a stone or metal model of a person's head, shoulders and chest:
a marble bust of Napoleon
2 (used especially when talking about clothes or measurements) a woman's breasts or the measurement around the breasts and back:
What is your bust measurement, Madam? * The dress was too big in the bust. * exercises to tone the bust
3 (informal) an unexpected visit made by the police in order to arrest people for doing sth illegal:
a drug bust
adjective [notusuallybeforenoun] (informal)
1 (BrE) broken:
My watch is bust.
2 (of a person or business) failed because of a lack of money:
We're bust! * We lost our money when the travel company went bust.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is bust a noun, verb, or something else?
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