bust
US: /ˈbəst/
UK: /bˈʌst/
UK: /bˈʌst/
English Vietnamese dictionary
bust /bʌst/
- danh từ
- tượng nửa người
- ngực (của phụ nữ); đường vòng ngực (của phụ nữ)
- danh từ
- (từ lóng) (như) bust
- to go bút
- (thông tục) phá sản, vỡ nợ
- động từ
- phá sản, vỡ nợ
- chè chén say sưa
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (thông tục) hạ tầng công tác (một người nào)
Advanced English dictionary
verb, noun, adjective
+ verb (bust, bust) or (busted, busted) [VN] (informal)
1 to break sth: I bust my camera. + The lights are busted. + Come out, or I'll bust the door down!
2 ~ sb/sth (for sth) (of the police) to suddenly enter a place and search it or arrest sb: He's been busted for drugs.
3 (especially AmE) to make sb lower in military rank as a punishment
Idioms: bust a gut (doing sth / to do sth) (informal) to make a great effort to do sth: It's a problem which nobody is going to bust a gut trying to solve.
...or bust (informal) used to say that you will try very hard to get somewhere or achieve sth: For him it's the Olympics or bust.
Phrasal Verbs: bust up (informal) (of a couple, friends, partners, etc.) to quarrel and separate: They bust up after five years of marriage.
related noun BUST-UP
bust sth<->up (informal) to make sth end by disturbing or ruining it: It was his drinking that bust up his marriage.
+ noun
1 a stone or metal model of a person's head, shoulders and chest: a marble bust of Napoleon
2 (used especially when talking about clothes or measurements) a woman's breasts or the measurement around the breasts and back: What is your bust measurement, Madam? + The dress was too big in the bust. + exercises to tone the bust
3 (informal) an unexpected visit made by the police in order to arrest people for doing sth illegal: a drug bust
+ adjective [not usually before noun] (informal)
1 (BrE) broken: My watch is bust.
2 (of a person or business) failed because of a lack of money: We're bust! + We lost our money when the travel company went bust.
Concise English dictionary
busts|busted|bustingbʌst
noun
+a complete failure
+the chest of a woman
+a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
+an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
verb
+ruin completely
+search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on
+separate or cause to separate abruptly
+go to pieces
+break open or apart suddenly and forcefully
adj.
+lacking funds
