Earlier in the year, TMZ alleged, citing a police report, that a hotel room spat between the two left Nicki with a busted lip.
Ex-hippie Billy Hayes was busted for smuggling hash and thrown in a terrifying Turkish prison.
busted is not the only journalism-inspired Hollywood project in various stages of production.
Weeks before he was abducted, alleged members of a kidnapping network tied to ISIS were busted in London.
He was busted but far from bust, and by February Pseudo had 10 channels.
But she busted in on him there and just piled into him and snowed him under.
Then he busted out, and had another of them forty-rod laughs of hisn.
Some one shore up and busted him a plenty with a soft-nose thirty.
busted more clotheslines than I've got fingers and toes, that pup has.
When I didn't hop him ag'in, the boys come over to see if I was busted.
"broken, ruined," 1837, past participle adjective from bust (v.).
1690s, "sculpture of upper torso and head," from French buste (16c.), from Italian busto "upper body," from Latin bustum "funeral monument, tomb," originally "funeral pyre, place where corpses are burned," perhaps shortened from ambustum, neuter of ambustus "burned around," past participle of amburere "burn around, scorch," from ambi- "around" + urere "to burn." Or perhaps from Old Latin boro, the early form of classical Latin uro "to burn." Sense development in Italian is probably from Etruscan custom of keeping dead person's ashes in an urn shaped like the person when alive. Meaning "bosom" is by 1884.
variant of burst (n.), 1764, American English. For loss of -r-, cf. ass (n.2). Originally "frolic, spree;" sense of "sudden failure" is from 1842. Meaning "police raid or arrest" is from 1938. Phrase ______ or bust as an emphatic expression attested by 1851 in British depictions of Western U.S. dialect. Probably from earlier expression bust (one's) boiler, by late 1840s, a reference to steamboat boilers exploding when driven too hard.
"to burst," 1806, variant of burst (v.); for loss of -r-, cf. ass (n.2). Meaning "go bankrupt" is from 1834. Meaning "break into" is from 1859. The slang meaning "demote" (especially in a military sense) is from 1918; that of "place under arrest" is from 1953 (earlier "to raid" from Prohibition). In card games, "to go over a score of 21," from 1939. Related: Busted; busting.
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