Buster

Quick meaning: Buster is a noun meaning (Australia and New Zealand) A heavy fall; (also performing arts) a staged fall, a pratfall.

Meaning

(Australia and New Zealand) A heavy fall; (also performing arts) a staged fall, a pratfall.

More Meanings

1. (chiefly colloquial, with 'of') Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing.
2. (chiefly military slang) Forming compounds denoting a team, weapon, or device specialized in the destruction of the first element.
3. (chiefly colloquial, with 'of') Someone who or something that 'breaks', tames, or overpowers a specified person or thing.
4. (dated, slang) Someone or something remarkable, especially for being loud, large, etc.
5. (obsolete, slang) A loaf of bread.
6. (obsolete, slang) A drinking spree, a binge.
7. (dated, slang) A gale, a strong wind; (especially Australia) a southerly buster.

Example Sentences

What a buster of a lunch it turned out to be.

German ‘balloon busters’ attack the Dover barrage.

Rothlin was described... by the papers as the buster of the bandit ring.

Now death, I pray thee what is it, but a buster of bonds; a destruction of toyle?

Word Forms

• busters

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