bust
To break.
Verb 4 meanings
To break.
“I busted my cooker while trying to fix it.”
An emphatic synonym of do or get.
“He busted huge air off that jump!”
To reduce in rank.
“He busted him down to patrolman for insubordination.”
To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
Noun 3 meanings
The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
A woman's breasts; the circumference of her chest measured around the breasts.
Etymology
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.
BUST at a glance
BUST has 4 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (B 3 + U 1 + S 1 + T 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,558 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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