bust : Idioms & Phrases
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bronco busting
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noun breaking a bronco to saddle
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bust up
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verb smash or break forcefully
wrack; wreck.
- The kid busted up the car
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bust-up
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noun a serious quarrel (especially one that ends a friendship)
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bust-up takeover
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noun a leveraged buyout in which the target company's assets are sold to repay the loan that financed the takeover
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buy-and-bust operation
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noun an undercover operation by narcotics detectives to catch unsuspecting drug dealers
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drug bust
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noun seizure of illegal drugs by the police
drug bust.
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drugs bust
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noun seizure of illegal drugs by the police
drug bust.
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Portrait bust , ∨ Portrait statue
- a bust or statue representing the actual features or person of an individual; in distinction from an ideal bust or statue.
Webster 1913
trust busting
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noun (law) government activities seeking to dissolve corporate trusts and monopolies (especially under the United States antitrust laws)
