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busted
[ buhs-tid ]
adjective
- broken, fractured, or seriously damaged:
a busted leg.
- no longer working or operating:
a busted radio.
- penniless or bankrupt; broke:
busted businesses that can’t pay their bills.
I never talk about my busted marriages.
- in trouble; caught doing something bad or wrong:
I know that’s a lie—you are so busted!
busted
/ ˈbʌstəd /
adjective
- informal.caught out doing something wrong and therefore in trouble
you are so busted
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Word History and Origins
Origin of busted1
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Example Sentences
South Korean police busted up one such scheme in 2011, which was said to have netted millions.
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.
Each of them was chuck full of that dubious sort of pride that has busted up more than one love-fiesta.
I am being busted here by party named Hutchinson.70 Seems good.
And there was nice split-bottom chairs, and perfectly sound, too—not bagged down in the middle and busted, like an old basket.
Some of the boys around here have been telling me that you were all busted up about that girl you married.
There isn't a one of them in the whole world that's worth getting busted up over.
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