bust
noun
1 bust
A complete failure.
Roget 554: representation, representment†; imitation etc. 19; illustration, delineation, depictment†; imagery, portraiture, iconography; design, designing; art, fine arts; painting etc. 556; sculpture etc. 557; engraving etc. 558; photography, cinematography; radiography, autoradiography [Bioch.], fluorography [Chem], sciagraphy†. personation, personification; impersonation; drama etc. 599. picture, photo, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot; X-ray photo; movie film, movie; tracing, scan, TV image, video image, image file, graphics, computer graphics, televideo, closed-circuit TV. copy etc. 21; drawing, sketch, drought, draft; plot, chart, figure, scheme. image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness; very image; effigy, facsimile. figure, figure head; puppet, doll, figurine, aglet†, manikin, lay-figure, model, mammet†, marionette, fantoccini†, waxwork, bust; statue, statuette. ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph, kanji [Jap.]; diagram, monogram. map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation (plan) 626. ichnography†, cartography; atlas; outline, scheme; view etc. (painting) 556; radiograph, scotograph†, sciagraph†; spectrogram, heliogram†. ... show more
is a specific kind of: failure.
is a broader term that covers: bomb, dud, turkey.
derivation: break, bustv1 | fall flat, fall through, flop, founder.
Dutch: sisser, afgang, drol, blamage, oneer, schande
2 bust
The chest of a woman.
synonym: female chest.
is a specific kind of: chest, pectus, thorax.
is a part of: female body.
derivation: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed.
3 bust
A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person.
is a specific kind of: sculpture.
Dutch: borstbeeld, buste
Polish: popiersie
4 bust
An occasion for excessive eating or drinking:
— They went on a bust that lasted three days.
Roget 840: amusement, entertainment, recreation, fun, game, fun and games; diversion, divertissement; reaction, solace; pastime, passetemps [Fr.], sport; labor of love; pleasure etc. 827. relaxation; leisure etc. 685. fun, frolic, merriment, jollity; joviality, jovialness†; heyday; laughter etc. 838; jocosity, jocoseness†; drollery, buffoonery, tomfoolery; mummery, pleasantry; wit etc. 842; quip, quirk. [verbal expressions of amusement: list] giggle, titter, snigger, snicker, crow, cheer, chuckle, shout; horse laugh, belly laugh, hearty laugh; guffaw; burst of laughter, fit of laughter, shout of laughter, roar of laughter, peal of laughter; cachinnation†; Kentish fire; tiger. play; game, game at romps; gambol, romp, prank, antic, rig, lark, spree, skylarking, vagary, monkey trick, gambade, fredaine†, escapade, echappee [Fr.], bout, espieglerie [Fr.]; practical joke etc. (ridicule) 856. dance; hop, reel, rigadoon†, saraband†, hornpipe, bolero, ballroom dance; [ballroom dances: list], minuet, waltz, polka, fox trot, tango, samba, rhumba, twist, stroll, hustle, cha-cha; fandango, cancan; bayadere†; breakdown, cake-walk, cornwallis [U.S.], break dancing; nautch-girl; shindig [U.S.]; skirtdance†, stag dance, Virginia reel, square dance; galop†, galopade†; jig, Irish jig, fling, strathspey†; allemande [Fr.]; gavot†, gavotte, tarantella; mazurka, morisco†, morris dance; quadrille; country dance, folk dance; cotillon, Sir Roger de Coverley; ballet etc. (drama) 599; ball; bal, bal masque, bal costume; masquerade; Terpsichore. festivity, merrymaking; party etc. (social gathering) 892; blowout [U.S.], hullabaloo, hoedown, bat [U.S.], bum [U.S.], bust [Slang], clambake [U.S.], donation party [U.S.], fish fry [U.S.], jamboree [Slang], kantikoy†, nautch†, randy, squantum [U.S.], tear [Slang], Turnerfest†, yule log; fete, festival, gala, ridotto†; revels, revelry, reveling; carnival, brawl, saturnalia, high jinks; feast, banquet etc. (food) 298; regale, symposium, wassail; carouse, carousal; jollification, junket, wake, Irish wake, picnic, fete champetre [Fr.], regatta, field day; treat. round of pleasures, dissipation, a short life and a merry one, racketing, holiday making. rejoicing etc. 838; jubilee etc. (celebration) 883. bonfire, fireworks, feu-de-joie, firecracker. holiday; gala day, red letter day, play day; high days and holidays; high holiday, Bank holiday; May day, Derby day; Saint Monday, Easter Monday, Whit Monday; Bairam†; wayz-goos†, bean feast; Arbor Day, Declaration Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving Day; Mardi gras [Fr.], mi-careme [Fr.], feria [Lat.], fiesta. place of amusement, theater; hall, concert room, ballroom, assemblyroom†; music hall. park, plaisance†; national park, national forest, state park, county park, city park, vest-pocket park, public park (public) 737.1; arbor; garden etc. (horticulture) 371; pleasure ground, playground, cricketground, croquet ground, archery ground, hunting ground; tennis court, racket court; bowling alley, green alley; croquet lawn, rink, glaciarum†, skating rink; roundabout, merry-go-round; swing; montagne Russe [Fr.]. game of chance, game of skill. athletic sports, gymnastics; archery, rifle shooting; tournament, pugilism etc. (contention) 720; sports etc. 622; horse racing, the turf; aquatics etc. 267; skating, sliding; cricket, tennis, lawn tennis; hockey, football, baseball, soccer, ice hockey, basketball; rackets, fives, trap bat and ball, battledore and shuttlecock, la grace; pall-mall, tipcat†, croquet, golf, curling, pallone†, polo, water polo; tent pegging; tilting at the ring, quintain [Mediev.]; greasy pole; quoits, horseshoes, discus; rounders, lacrosse; tobogganing, water polo; knurr and spell†. [childrens' games] leapfrog, hop skip and jump; mother may I; French and English, tug of war; blindman's bluff, hunt the slopper†, hide and seek, kiss in the ring; snapdragon; cross questions and crooked answers. ; crisscross, hopscotch; jacks, jackstones†, marbles; mumblety-peg, mumble-the-peg, pushball, shinney, shinny, tag &c.; billiards, pool, pingpong, pyramids, bagatelle; bowls, skittles, ninepins, kain†, American bowls†; tenpins [U.S.], tivoli. cards, card games; whist, rubber; round game; loo, cribbage, besique†, euchre, drole†, ecarte [Fr.], picquet†, allfours†, quadrille, omber, reverse, Pope Joan, commit; boston, boaston†; blackjack, twenty-one, vingtun [Fr.]; quinze [Fr.], thirty-one, put, speculation, connections, brag, cassino†, lottery, commerce, snip-snap-snoren†, lift smoke, blind hookey, Polish bank, Earl of Coventry, Napoleon, patience, pairs; banker; blind poker, draw poker, straight poker, stud poker; bluff, bridge, bridge whist; lotto, monte, three-card monte, nap, penny-ante, poker, reversis†, squeezers, old maid, fright, beggar-my-neighbor; baccarat. [cards: list] ace, king, queen, knave, jack, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, trey, deuce; joker; trump, wild card. [card suits: list] spades, hearts, clubs, diamonds; major suit, minor suit. bower; right bower, left bower; dummy; jackpot; deck. [hands at poker: list] pair, two pair, three of a kind, straight, flush, full-house, four of a kind, royal flush; misere &c.. [board games: list] chess, draughts, checkers, checquers, backgammon, dominos, merelles†, nine men's morris, go bang, solitaire; game of fox and goose; monopoly; loto &c.; [word games: list], scrabble, scribbage, boggle, crossword puzzle, hangman. morra†; gambling etc. (chance) 621. toy, plaything, bauble; doll etc. (puppet ) 554; teetotum†; knickknack etc. (trifle) 643; magic lantern etc. (show) 448; peep show, puppet show, raree show, gallanty show†; toy shop; quips and cranks and wanton wiles, nods and becks quips and cranks and wanton wiles, nods and becks and wreathed smiles" [Milton]. entertainer, showman, showgirl; dancer, tap dancer, song-and-dance man; vaudeville act; singer; musician etc. 416. sportsman, gamester, reveler; master of ceremonies, master of revels; pompom girl†; arbiter elegantiarum [Lat.]; arbiter bibendi [Lat.], archer, fan [U.S.], toxophilite†, turfman†. ... show more
is a specific kind of: revel, revelry.
is a broader term that covers: piss-up.
derivation: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff.
Dutch: vreetbui, zuippartij
verb
1 bust
Ruin completely:
— He busted my radio!.
synonym: break.
is a specific kind of: destroy, ruin.
is a broader term that covers: break down.
cause: break, bustv4, fall apart, wear, wear out.
is the opposite of: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on.
see also: analyse, analyze, break down, dissect, take apart | break off, chip, cut off, knap | break up, sever | bust up, wrack, wreck | break apart, break up, disassemble, dismantle, take apart.
derivation: break, breakage, breaking | bustn1, fizzle, flop | buster | breakable.
2 bust
Search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on.
synonym: raid.
3 bust
Separate or cause to separate abruptly.
synonyms: rupture, snap, tear.
is a specific kind of: disunite, divide, part, separate.
is a broader term that covers: lacerate | pull, rend, rip, rive | rip up, shred, tear up.
see also: pan, tear apart, trash | dismantle, level, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down.
derivation: rupture | tear | snap | rent, rip, snag, split, tear | rupture.
Dutch: doorscheuren, scheuren
4 bust
Go to pieces.
synonyms: break, fall apart, wear, wear out.
is a specific kind of: crumble, decay, dilapidate.
is a broader term that covers: fray, frazzle.
see also: wear away, wear off | break away, break off, chip, chip off, come off | wear away, whittle away, whittle down | break apart, break up, crash.
Dutch: breken, sneuvelen
5 bust
Break open or apart suddenly and forcefully.
synonym: burst.
is a specific kind of: break, come apart, fall apart, separate, split up.
is a broader term that covers: shatter.
Dutch: breken, oppakken, springen
adjective
1 bust
Lacking funds.
synonyms: broke, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke.
is similar to: poor.
Polish: spłukany, goły
Moby thesaurus: abase, abasement, ado, apprehend, apprehension, arch, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, backfire, bad times, bag, bang, bankrupt, bankruptcy, barrow, bat, be ruined, become insolvent, bender, binge, blast, blow out, blow up, bomb, boobs, boom, boot, booze, bosom, bottoming out, bounce, bouncing check, boundary stone, bout, box, brannigan, brass, breach, break, break in, break to harness, breast, breasts, brisket, bum, bump, burst, business cycle, business fluctuations, bustle, cairn, can, capture, carousal, carouse, carving, cashier, casting down, celebration, cenotaph, check, chest, chip, chop, clamor, clap, clash, clout, collapse, collar, column, compotation, cooling off, crack, crash, crisis, cromlech, crop, cross, crump, cup, cyclolith, debase, debasement, debauch, deconsecrate, defrock, degradation, degrade, degrading, dement, demerit, demote, demotion, deplume, depluming, depose, depression, deprive, detain, dethrone, detonate, disbar, discharge, discrown, disemploy, disenthrone, disgrade, disgrading, dismiss, displace, displume, displuming, doll, dolly, dolmen, domesticate, downgrade, downgrading, downturn, drinking bout, drum out, drunk, drunken carousal, dud, dug, dull thud, dummy, economic cycle, economic expansion, economic growth, economic stagnation, escapade, evil day, excommunicate, exfoliate, expanding economy, expansion, expel, explode, fail, failure, fantoccini, figure, figurehead, figurine, fire, fissure, fizzle, flap, flat failure, fling, flop, floperoo, flunk, flunk out, flurry, fold, fold up, footstone, fracture, frost, fulminate, furlough, furore, fuss, gentle, gingerbread man, give the ax, give the gate, go bankrupt, go into receivership, go off, go to pot, go to ruin, go under, go up, grave, gravestone, growth, guzzle, hard times, hassle, haymaker, headstone, heavy weather, high growth rate, hoarstone, housebreak, hubbub, humble, humbling, hurly-burly, impoverish, inscription, insolvency, insufficient funds, jag, kick, kick upstairs, kited check, knock, knockers, lark, lay figure, lay off, lemon, let go, let off, let out, liquidate, loser, low, lower, make a pinch, make redundant, mama, mamelon, mamelonation, mammary gland, mammilla, mammillation, man of straw, manikin, mannequin, marionette, marker, market expansion, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, model, monolith, monument, mound, nab, necrology, nenes, netting, nipple, obelisk, obituary, orgy, oust, overdraft, overdrawn account, overthrow, pap, papilla, paste, pauper, pauperize, peak, peaking, pension, pension off, pick up, pigeon breast, pillar, pinch, plaque, ploy, poke, portrait bust, potation, pother, prize, prosperity, pub-crawl, pull in, punch, puppet, purge, pyramid, rainy day, randan, randy, rap, read out of, receivership, recession, recovery, reduce, reduction, release, reliquary, remembrance, remove, remove from office, replace, report, retire, revel, ribbon, rostral column, ruin, run in, rupture, sack, sad times, scale, scarecrow, sculpture, scuttle, seizure, separate forcibly, set off, shaft, shoot, shrine, shut down, sink, slam, slap, slat, slowdown, slump, smack, snap, snowman, sock, splat, split, spree, statuary, statue, statuette, stela, stone, stormy weather, strip, strip of office, strip of rank, stripping of rank, stupa, superannuate, surplus, suspend, swap, symposium, tablet, tame, tap, tear, teat, testimonial, thorax, thwack, tit, tits, titties, titty, to-do, tomb, tombstone, toot, tope, total loss, touch off, trophy, tumult, turkey, turmoil, turn off, turn out, udder, unchurch, unfrock, unsaddle, unseat, unthrone, uproar, upturn, wash out, washout, wassail, wax figure, waxwork, whack, wham, whap, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind, whomp, whop, wingding, wood carving ... show more.
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