ALL meanings of bust
bust
B b - noun bust a raid, search, or arrest by the police 4
- verb bust If you bust something, you break it or damage it so badly that it cannot be used. 3
- verb bust If someone is busted, the police arrest them. 3
- verb bust If police bust a place, they go to it in order to arrest people who are doing something illegal. 3
- verb bust Bust is also a noun. 3
- adjective bust A company or fund that is bust has no money left and has been forced to close down. 3
- countable noun bust A bust is a statue of the head and shoulders of a person. 3
- countable noun bust You can use bust to refer to a woman's breasts, especially when you are describing their size. 3
- noun bust the chest of a human being, esp a woman's bosom 3
- noun bust a sculpture of the head, shoulders, and upper chest of a person 3
- verb bust to burst or break 3
- verb bust to make or become bankrupt 3
- verb bust (of the police) to raid, search, or arrest 3
- verb bust to demote, esp in military rank 3
- verb bust to break or tame (a horse, etc) 3
- verb bust to punch; hit 3
- noun bust a punch; hit 3
- noun bust a failure, esp a financial one; bankruptcy 3
- noun bust a drunken party 3
- noun bust a piece of sculpture representing the head, shoulders, and upper chest of a human body 3
- noun bust the human bosom; esp., the breasts of a woman 3
- verb transitive bust to make penniless or bankrupt 3
- verb transitive bust to demote in rank 3
- verb transitive bust to tame (esp. broncos) 3
- verb transitive bust to hit 3
- verb transitive bust to arrest 3
- verb transitive bust to make a raid (sense 2) on 3
- intransitive verb bust to become penniless or bankrupt 3
- noun bust a person or thing that is a total failure 3
- noun bust a financial collapse; economic crash 3
- noun bust a punch 3
- noun bust a spree 3
- noun bust an arrest 3
- noun bust A bust is a decrease in economic activity with declining growth and falling prices. 3
- noun bust woman's chest 1
- noun bust sculpture type 1
- noun bust failure 1
- noun bust police raid 1
- abbreviation BUST broken 1
- abbreviation BUST bankrupt 1
- abbreviation BUST break 1
- noun bust financial: collapse 1
- transitive verb bust police: arrest, raid 1
- noun bust party with alcohol 1
- intransitive verb bust become bankrupt 1
- transitive verb bust assign to lower rank 1
- transitive verb bust make sb/sth bankrupt 1
- noun bust Historically bust is derived from a dialect pronunciation of burst and is related to it much as cuss is related to curse. Bust is both a noun and a verb and has a wide range of meanings for both uses. Many are slang or informal. A few, as “a decline in economic conditions, depression,” are standard. 1
- noun bust a failure. 1
- noun bust Informal. a hit; sock; punch: He got a bust in the nose before he could put up his hands. 1