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buster

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Noun

  1. Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing.
  2. Forming compounds denoting a team, weapon, or device specialized in the destruction of the first element.
  3. Someone who or something that 'breaks', tames, or overpowers a specified person or thing: A broncobuster.
  4. Someone who or something that 'breaks', tames, or overpowers a specified person or thing: Forming compounds denoting an agent or agency tasked with reducing or eliminating the first element.
  5. Someone or something remarkable, especially for being loud, large, etc.
  6. Someone or something remarkable, especially for being loud, large, etc: A form of address, particularly of men: guy, dude, fella, mack, buddy, loser. (Originally as 'old buster'.)
  7. A loaf of bread.
  8. A drinking spree, a binge.
  9. A gale, a strong wind; (especially Australia) a southerly buster.
  10. A heavy fall; (also performing arts) a staged fall, a pratfall.
  11. A molting crab.
  12. A cheat's die whose sides bear only certain combinations of spots, so that undesirable values can never be rolled.

Proper noun

  1. A surname.
  2. A male given name.
  3. A male nickname.
  4. Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.

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