BUST meaning: Sculpture of head and shoulders

We found 45 dictionaries that define the word bust:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

bust: Merriam-Webster.com
bust, bust: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
bust, bust: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
bust: Collins English Dictionary
bust: Vocabulary.com
Bust, bu'st, bust: Wordnik
bust: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
bust: Wiktionary
bust: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
bust: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
bust: Infoplease Dictionary
bust: Dictionary.com
bust (1), bust (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
bust: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Bust (disambiguation), Bust (magazine), Bust (sculpture), Bust: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Bust: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
bust: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
bust: Rhymezone
bust: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
bust: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
bust: Free Dictionary
bust: Mnemonic Dictionary
bust: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
bust: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (4 matching dictionaries)

bust: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
Coin Collecting Glossary (No longer online)
Bust: Numismatic Dictionary
-bust, bust-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

Bust: Investopedia
bust: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

bust: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

BUST: Acronym Finder
bust: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

bust, bust, bust, bust: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
bust: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
Bust, The Bust, bust: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)

Bust: Dan's Poker
Bust: Card Games
winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
Bust: Gambling Glossary
Snowboarding Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)

National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
bust: Coin Collecting

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (transitive, colloquial, chiefly US) To break.
▸ verb:  (transitive, slang) To arrest (someone) for a crime.
▸ verb:  (transitive, slang) To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To debunk, dispel (a belief).
▸ verb:  (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
▸ verb:  (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
▸ verb:  (finance, transitive) To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
▸ verb:  (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
▸ verb:  (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
▸ verb:  (transitive, slang) To break in (an animal).
▸ verb:  (transitive, slang) To break in (a woman or girl), to deflower
▸ verb:  (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate; to eject semen or to squirt.
▸ verb:  (journalism, intransitive) For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
▸ verb:  (chess, slang) To refute an established opening.
▸ noun:  (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
▸ noun:  (slang) A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
▸ noun:  (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
▸ noun:  (chess, slang) A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
▸ noun:  (slang) A disappointment.
▸ noun:  (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
▸ noun:  (economics) The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
▸ noun:  (slang, dated) A spree, unrestrained revel, or wild party.
▸ adjective:  (slang) Without any money, broke, bankrupt.
▸ noun:  A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
▸ noun:  The circumference of a woman's chest around her breasts.

Similar:

flop, fall apart, raid, snap, break, burst, tear, rupture, wear out, stony-broke, more...

Opposite:

boom, boomtown, booming

Types:

full-length, head, profile, side, more...

Phrases:

portrait bust, bust out, bust up, drug bust, baby bust, more...

Adjectives:

fine, boom, and, small, colossal, large, big, female, beautiful, full, white

Colors:

bronze, copper, gold, silver, alabaster, more...

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