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Substantiivit
- (chiefly colloquial, with 'of') Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing.
- (chiefly colloquial, with 'of') Someone who or something that 'breaks', tames, or overpowers a specified person or thing.
- (US, in particular, dated, slang) A bronco-buster.
- (dated, slang) Someone or something remarkable, especially for being loud, large, etc..
- (colloquial, variously expressing familiarity, admiration, or hostility) : guy, dude, fella, mack, buddy, loser. (Originally as 'old buster'.)
- (obsolete, slang) A loaf of bread.
- (obsolete, slang) A drinking spree, a binge.
- (dated, slang) A gale, a strong wind; (especially, Australian) a southerly buster.
- (Australian and New Zealand) A heavy fall; (also performing arts) a staged fall, a pratfall.
- (US, regional) A molting crab.
Esimerkit
- An extremely wealthy old buster.
- Restaurant August... serves contemporary French cuisine prepared with Louisiana ingredients like buster crabs, shrimp and oysters.
- In that state he is called a ‘Buster’, bursting his shell.
- Dainty... came down ‘a buster’ at the last hurdle, and Scots Grey cantered in by himself.
- When the barometer drops rapidly... watch out for a strong sou'wester. A buster can be on you in a flash.
- The Buster and Brickfielder: austral red-dust blizzard and red-hot Simoom.
- ‘This is a buster,’ i.e. a powerful or heavy wind.
- All off for a buster, armstrong, hollering down the street.
- They were on a buster, and were taken up by the police.
- An 8oz. loaf of brown bread... goes by the name of ‘buster’, I suppose on account of the way they blow you out.
- Three penny busters, and a whole kit-full of winegar and mustard.
- ‘Careful, buster,’ she said. ‘I've got a knife in my hand.’
- Now death, I pray thee what is it, but a buster of bonds; a destruction of toyle?
- That's generous, old buster.
- What a buster of a lunch it turned out to be.
- ‘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.’
- New York City traffic agents have become Gridlock Busters and cigarette foes are smokebusters.
- The professional fraud-busters [of the art world].
- Men nicknamed him the ‘Booze Buster’, and cartoonists loved to picture him, revolver in hand,... fighting the demon rum.
- The buster must be careful to keep well away from sheds and timber.
- Our main purpose in further experimentation with nuclear bombs is not... to make city-busters more horrible.
- German ‘balloon busters’ attack the Dover barrage.
- Rothlin was described... by the papers as the buster of the bandit ring.
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