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BUST UP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bust up mean?
• BUST UP (verb)
The verb BUST UP has 1 sense:
1. smash or break forcefully
Familiarity information: BUST UP used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Smash or break forcefully
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
Context example:
The kid busted up the car
Hypernyms (to "bust up" is one way to...):
destroy; ruin (destroy completely; damage irreparably)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Context examples
“Well, it is very handsome of you, Mr. Holmes. I brought the bust up with me, as you asked me to do. Here it is!”
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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