buster
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Noun
- Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing.
- Forming compounds denoting a team, weapon, or device specialized in the destruction of the first element.
- Someone who or something that 'breaks', tames, or overpowers a specified person or thing: A broncobuster.
- 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.
- Someone or something remarkable, especially for being loud, large, etc.
- 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'.)
- A loaf of bread.
- A drinking spree, a binge.
- A gale, a strong wind; (especially Australia) a southerly buster.
- A heavy fall; (also performing arts) a staged fall, a pratfall.
- A molting crab.
- A cheat's die whose sides bear only certain combinations of spots, so that undesirable values can never be rolled.
Proper noun
- A surname.
- A male given name.
- A male nickname.
- Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.
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