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bust out

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Verb

  1. To escape (from); break out.
  2. To free from captivity.
  3. To reveal, to show.
  4. To bring out; to take out.
  5. To burst out (laughing).
  6. To lose by going bust.
  7. To buy an interest in a business and then take out a large amount of debt, strip the business of assets and then cash out before the business goes into bankruptcy.
  8. To have sex with (a woman); to bring (a woman) to orgasm.

Noun

  1. An escape attempt, usually from a prison.
  2. An attempt at cheating, such as gambling with weighted dice.
  3. A commercial bankruptcy caused for deliberate and nefarious purposes by organized crime; any deliberately contrived bankruptcy.

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