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• n  a complete failure
• n  the chest of a woman
• n  a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
• n  an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
  they went on a bust that lasted three days
• v  ruin completely
  He busted my radio!
• v  search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on
• v  separate or cause to separate abruptly
• v  go to pieces
• v  break open or apart suddenly and forcefully
• s  lacking funds

• No one's calling it a bust, but the glittering city-state's heavy debt load poses a challenge for its future growth.
• For five years, while Producer Howard Hughes and film censors played put take with certain shots in The Outlaw, Jane Russell was only a box-office bust.

• flop
• fizzle
• female chest
• tear
• binge
• bout
• break
• raid
• rupture
• snap
• wear
• wear out
• fall apart
• burst
• broke
• skint
• stone-broke
• stony-broke

• repair

News & Articles

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• St. Cloud drug bust near middle school yields $58,247
  A St. Cloud drug bust seized 44 pounds of marijuana and $58,247 in sales on Tuesday after an eight-month investigation.
  June 13, 2013 - FOX 9 News Twin Cities
• Heroin, counterfeit money bust has local officials concerned
  Drug bust in North Mankato finds sizable amount of heroin and counterfeit money.
  June 13, 2013 - Mankato Free Press
• Drug bust fuels case of mistaken identity
  Meth lab bust at beach youth sports facility taints similar facility next door.
  June 13, 2013 - U-T San Diego

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in TIME
  In the end, this is a symptom of a larger problem - a bubble and bust economy that valued reckless speculation over responsibility and hard work,President Obama said in a statement. "That is what we must ultimately repair to build a...
• Evel Knievel in Chicago Sun-Times
  They started out watching me bust my ass, and I became part of their lives,Knievel said. "People wanted to associate with a winner, not a loser. They wanted to associate with someone who kept trying to be a winner."
• George Osborne in The Associated Press
  We will find higher interest rates, businesses going bust, unemployment rising and our living standards declining. I am not prepared to put up with that,he said in a BBC interview.