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noun

bust n.

A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast. "Ambition sighed: she found it vain to trust The faithless column, and the crumbling bust."

The portion of the human figure included between the head and waist, whether in statuary or in the person; the chest or thorax; the upper part of the trunk of the body.

Especially: A woman's bosom (2).

verb

bust v. t. (past & past part. bust; pres. part. bursting; the past participle bursten is obsolete) To arrest, for committing a crime; often used in the passive; as, the whole gang got busted. (informal)

bust v. i. (past & past part. bust; pres. part. bursting; the past participle bursten is obsolete)

To break or burst. (informal)

(Card Playing) In blackjack, to draw a card that causes one's total to exceed twenty-one.

To go bankrupt.

to go bust to go bankrupt.

or bust or collapse from the effort; used in phrases expressing determination to do something; as, Oregon or bust, meaning "We will get to Oregon or die trying."

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Etymology of 'Bust'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bust" Quotes from Famous Books

... may bust such a bonnet and crush it if you will, But the scent of the pancake will cling ...

— Remarks • Bill Nye

... Lone assured him without emotion. "She's been left alone a week or two at a time during roundups. I don't reckon the outfit'll bust up before you ...

— The Quirt • B.M. Bower

... midget. "Truth is, Mr. Welborn, I'm not posted on the bear market. Offhand, I would say that they were not worth much to a show that was losing money by the bale. You see, this good old year of '32 is a bust. A depression hits a circus first and hardest. Just now, we are cutting the season and have planned a straightaway back to winter quarters. Instead of going down through Fort Collins, Greeley, Denver, Pueblo, with a swing through Texas, we have canceled everything. We play this Union Pacific ...

— David Lannarck, Midget - An Adventure Story • George S. Harney

... in which, however, the most marked simplicity was preserved. A plain white muslin dress gave full developement to a person, which was of a perfection that no dress could have disguised. It was the bust of a Venus, united to a form, to create which would have taxed the imaginative powers of a Praxiteles—a form so faultlessly moulded that every movement presented some new and unpremeditated grace. What added to the surpassing richness of her beauty ...

— The Canadian Brothers - or The Prophecy Fulfilled • John Richardson

... Washington's face, modelled a complete head and bust in clay, made a cast from that, took the latter to France, and from it executed the statue now in the capitol at Richmond. He made careful measurements of Washington's figure, and in Paris, ...

— Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. • Benson J. Lossing

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