bust out
Short definition from Wiktionary
Verb
- To escape (from); break out.
- To free from captivity.
- To reveal, to show.
- To bring out; to take out.
- To burst out (laughing).
- To lose by going bust.
- 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.
- To have sex with (a woman); to bring (a woman) to orgasm.
Noun
- An escape attempt, usually from a prison.
- An attempt at cheating, such as gambling with weighted dice.
- A commercial bankruptcy caused for deliberate and nefarious purposes by organized crime; any deliberately contrived bankruptcy.
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