buster
noun
a person who breaks up something.
buster
1 American
[buhs-ter]
/ ˈbʌs tər /
noun
Informal.
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busters
plural
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a person who breaks up something.
crime busters.
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something that is very big or unusual for its kind.
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a loud, uproarious reveler.
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a frolic; spree.
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(initial capital letter) (used as a familiar term of address to a man or boy who is an object to the speaker's annoyance or anger).
Look, Buster, you're standing in my way!
Buster
2
American
[buhs-ter]
/ ˈbʌs tər /
noun
buster
British
/ ˈbʌstə /
noun
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(in combination) a person or thing destroying something as specified
dambuster
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a term of address for a boy or man
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a person who breaks horses
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a spree, esp a drinking bout
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Origin of buster
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Healthcare costs typically mount at a higher rate than overall inflation, and Medigap policies can be a budget buster.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
Debris “from bunker buster munitions can be seen around both sets of tunnel entrances,” Lair said in a social-media post.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
Only the US was considered to have a "bunker buster" bomb strong and large enough to destroy Fordo.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2025
These bombers can carry the 30,000-pound GBU-57 “Massive Ordnance Penetrator” bunker buster, a weapon experts say is uniquely designed to penetrate underground nuclear facilities like Iran’s Fordow site.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2025
Photograph by Nicholas H. Shepherd in 1846 or 1847. buster play in American history.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
A humanoid’s frantic attempts to stay upright—arms flailing, legs skittering—bears an uncanny resemblance to the choreographed collapses of Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
Norma Buster is the chief of staff at C.A.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
The response from Giants president and Hall of Fame catcher Buster Posey was considered inadequate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
It is 1941 and Neriya, a young Jewish girl in a Lithuanian shtetl, is being noisily summoned to the forest by a regular visitor to her house, a crow she calls Buster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
A coyote that seemed pretty tame lived with us for a while, and once Dad brought home a wounded buzzard that we named Buster.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
These munitions, known as "bunker busters", have been used by Israel in the past to target underground facilities in both Gaza and Lebanon.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2025
From there, Strait downshifted again to the archetypal sad cowboy song “I Can Still Make Cheyenne,” which could make even the toughest bronco busters reach for their handkerchiefs.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 18, 2023
I hope to follow in her footsteps, and I hereby deputize readers to become ageism stigma busters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
Then there’s Gen X, dubbed by the media at various intervals as baby busters and 20-nothings.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2019
I could not bring you, but I have no problem telling you what I saw—the entire diaspora around me—hustlers, lawyers, Kappas, busters, doctors, barbers, Deltas, drunkards, geeks, and nerds.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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