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buster.

Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing.

    colloquial
  2. Forming compounds denoting a team, weapon, or device specialized in the destruction of the first element.

    slang
  3. Someone who or something that 'breaks', tames, or overpowers a specified person or thing. A broncobuster.

    US · colloquial · dated · slang
  4. Someone who or something that 'breaks', tames, or overpowers a specified person or thing. Forming compounds denoting an agent or agency tasked with reducing or eliminating the first element.

    colloquial · slang
  5. Someone or something remarkable, especially for being loud, large, etc.

    dated · slang
  6. Someone or something remarkable, especially for being loud, large, etc. A form of address, particularly of men: guy, dude, fella, mack, buddy, loser. (Originally as 'old buster'.)

    colloquial · dated · slang
  7. A loaf of bread.

    obsolete · slang
  8. A drinking spree, a binge.

    obsolete · slang
  9. A gale, a strong wind; (especially Australia) a southerly buster.

    dated · slang
  10. A heavy fall; (also performing arts) a staged fall, a pratfall.

    Australia · New-Zealand
  11. A molting crab.

    US · regional
  12. A cheat's die whose sides bear only certain combinations of spots, so that undesirable values can never be rolled.

    slang
Where this word comes from

Originally a dialectal variant of burster; later influenced by bust + -er. The combining form of the term has appeared from the early 20th century but been especially prolific during three periods: in the 1930s, owing to the success of the radio series Gang Busters; in the 1940s, owing to its appearance as military slang; and in the 1980s, owing to the success of the movie Ghostbusters.

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