bust
noun
[ bʌst ]
• a woman's chest as measured around her breasts.
• "a 36-inch bust"
Similar:
chest,
bosom,
breasts,
mammary glands,
mammae,
boobs,
boobies,
tits,
titties,
knockers,
bazookas,
melons,
jubblies,
bubbies,
orbs,
globes,
jugs,
bristols,
charlies,
baps,
bazooms,
casabas,
chi-chis,
hooters,
norks,
dugs,
paps,
embonpoint,
• a sculpture of a person's head, shoulders, and chest.
Origin:
mid 17th century (denoting the upper part or torso of a large sculpture): from French buste, from Italian busto, from Latin bustum ‘tomb, sepulchral monument’.
bust
verb
• break, split, or burst.
• "they bust the tunnel wide open"
Similar:
break,
crack,
snap,
fracture,
shatter,
smash,
smash to smithereens,
fragment,
splinter,
disintegrate,
fall to bits,
fall to pieces,
split,
burst,
rupture,
tear,
rend,
sever,
separate,
divide,
shiver,
• (of the police) raid or search (premises where illegal activity is suspected).
• "my flat got busted"
Similar:
raid,
search,
make a search of,
swoop on,
make a raid on,
do over,
bust
noun
• a period of economic difficulty or depression.
• "the boom was followed by the present bust"
• a raid or arrest by the police.
• "a drug bust"
• a worthless thing.
• "cynics remain convinced the political process is a bust"
• a violent blow.
• "a bust on the snout"
bust
adjective
• damaged or broken.
• "the vacuum cleaner's bust"
• bankrupt.
• "six of their sponsors have gone bust"
Similar:
fail,
collapse,
crash,
fold (up),
go under,
founder,
be ruined,
cave in,
go bankrupt,
become insolvent,
cease trading,
go into receivership,
go into liquidation,
be liquidated,
be wound up,
be closed (down),
be shut (down),
go broke,
go bump,
go to the wall,
go belly up,
come a cropper,
flop,
flatline,
Origin:
mid 18th century (originally US, as a noun in the sense ‘an act of bursting or splitting’): variant of burst.
