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Buster   /bˈəstər/   Listen
Buster

noun
1.
An informal form of address for a man.  Synonyms: dude, fellow.  "Hey buster, what's up?"
2.
A robust child.
3.
A person who breaks horses.  Synonyms: bronco buster, broncobuster.
4.
A person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something.  "Sanction buster" , "Crime buster"
5.
A person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically.  Synonym: baby buster.


Bust

adjective
1.
Lacking funds.  Synonyms: broke, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke.



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"Buster" Quotes from Famous Books



... enough in the line of construction, over in a corner of the mammoth reservation is a gas plant, and buster, too. This plant is already in operation and other plants of like size are busy in repairing machinery and in other work. Everywhere about the place there is incessant activity—regular "Hurry up Yost" speed-upativeness—in road building, well driving (some deep ones have been ...
— The Stars & Stripes, Vol 1, No 1, February 8, 1918, - The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 • American Expeditionary Forces
... this he is wiser than most human beings. You see, there is not one of all the little people in the Green Forest who has so many enemies to watch out for as has Whitefoot. There are ever so many who would like nothing better than to dine on plump little Whitefoot. There are Buster Bear and Billy Mink and Shadow the Weasel and Unc' Billy Possum and Hooty the Owl and all the members of the Hawk family, not to mention Blacky the Crow in times when other food is scarce. Reddy and Granny Fox and Old Man Coyote are always ...
— Whitefoot the Wood Mouse • Thornton W. Burgess
... big 'n' heavy I'd take you up on that," said Creede, "but I'm just as much obliged, all the same. I don't claim to be no bronco-buster now, but I used to ride some myself when I was a kid. But say, the old judge has got some good horses runnin' on the upper range,—if you want to keep your hand in,—thirty or forty head of 'em, and wild as ...
— Hidden Water • Dane Coolidge
... the four, an old space-buster with a face wrinkled like a dried prune, burned by cosmic rays and the suns of worlds so far away they were scarcely credible, had taken command. Suddenly, Old Dunbar had known where they were. Suddenly, Dunbar knew where they ...
— To Each His Star • Bryce Walton
... the younger boy in delight. "You're a buster, Joe, and no mistake. The president himself couldn't have rolled that sentence off better, or that old piece of pomposity who conies to the secret meetings with the ...
— A Beautiful Possibility • Edith Ferguson Black


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