bust-up
- n a serious quarrel (especially one that ends a friendship)
- After all, the noisy bust-up of the American film stars' 12-year relationship served the British monarchy handsomely by shoving off the front pages of frenzy-feeding tabloids the .
- Earlier media analyses of what had preceded the bust-up depicted Materazzi's comments as Islamophobic or racist in nature with one suggesting the Italian had called Zidane a .
- Revolt at Transamerica It was noisy and public enough to have been the bust-up of a particularly rocky Hollywood marriage, which in fact was just what it had been.