Noun: bust
Sample Sentences
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a narcotics bust
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Paris was a bust. They wouldn't even let us see the Mona Lisa. [2014 November 2, “Opposites A-Frack”, in The Simpsons, season 26, episode 5:]
Nouns inflected like bust
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English busten, a variant of bursten, bresten (“to burst”). Compare Low German basten, a variant of barsten (“to burst”). Cognate with burst and bost.
Verbs referencing "bust"
Old Norse Nouns
beysti.