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Busted Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
busted
adj
1. (used informally especially of bones) fractured; "my arm is busted"; "i got my head busted in the fight"; "can't play with a busted baseball bat"
2. suddenly and violently broken open especially from internal pressure; "a burst balloon"; "burst pipes"; "burst seams"; "a ruptured appendix"; (`busted' is an informal term for `burst' as in "a busted balloon") [syn: burst, ruptured]
3. out of working order; "a broken washing machine"; "the coke machine is broken"; (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken' as in "the coke machine is busted") [syn: broken]
charged by the police, arrested Shane got busted for trafficking. He sold cocain to some kids.
charged by the police, arrested
Shane got busted for trafficking. He sold cocaine to some kids.
Shane got busted for trafficking. He sold cocaine to some kids.
Adjective
1. (used informally especially of bones) fractured; "my arm is busted"; "I got my head busted in the fight"; "can't play with a busted baseball bat"
(similar) broken
(classification) colloquialism
2. suddenly and violently broken open especially from internal pressure (`busted' is an informal term for `burst'); "a burst balloon"; "burst pipes"; "burst seams"; "a ruptured appendix"; "a busted balloon"
(synonym) burst, ruptured
(similar) damaged
(classification) colloquialism
3. out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken'); "a broken washing machine"; "the coke machine is broken"; "the coke machine is busted"
(synonym) broken
(similar) damaged
(classification) colloquialism
Noun
1. a complete failure; "the play was a dismal flop"
(synonym) flop
(hypernym) failure
(hyponym) turkey, bomb, dud
(derivation) break
2. a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
(hypernym) sculpture
3. an occasion for excessive eating or drinking; "they went on a bust that lasted three days"
(synonym) tear, binge, bout
(hypernym) revel, revelry
(hyponym) piss-up
Verb
1. ruin completely; "He busted my radio!"
(synonym) break
(hypernym) destroy, ruin
(hyponym) break down
(cause) break, wear, wear out, fall apart
(see-also) bust up, wreck, wrack
(verb-group) break, wear, wear out, fall apart
(derivation) flop
2. search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on; "The police raided the crack house"
(synonym) raid
(hypernym) attack, assail
3. separate or cause to separate abruptly; "The rope snapped"; "tear the paper"
(synonym) tear, rupture, snap
(hypernym) separate, disunite, divide, part
(hyponym) lacerate
4. go to pieces; "The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely"
(synonym) break, wear, wear out, fall apart
(hypernym) decay, crumble, delapidate
(hyponym) fray, frazzle
(verb-group) break
5. break open or apart suddenly and forcefully; "The dam burst"
(synonym) burst
(hypernym) break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart
(hyponym) shatter
Adjective
1. lacking funds; "`skint' is a British slang term"
(synonym) broke, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke
(similar) poor
Busted Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Busted may refer to:
- "Busted" (Johnny Cash song), a 1962 Harlan Howard song made famous by Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, and John Conlee
- "Busted" (Joanne song), a 2001 song by Joanne Accom
- Busted, name of The Black Keys rendition of the R. L. Burnside song "Skinny Woman"
- "Busted" , a song on the TV series Phineas and Ferb
- Busted (band), an English pop punk boyband
- Busted (2002 album), their self-titled debut album
- Busted (2004 album), a US compilation album
- Busted (Cheap Trick album), released in 1990
- Busted (film), a 1996 comedy
- Busted!, the quarterly newsletter of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
- MTV's Busted, a reality TV show that began airing in 2008
- Being arrested or fined
- Busted, one of the three outcomes of the experiments at the science entertainment TV program MythBusters
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