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Buster   /bˈəstər/   Listen
Buster

noun
1.
An informal form of address for a man.  Synonyms: dude, fellow.  "Hey buster, what's up?"
2.
A robust child.
3.
A person who breaks horses.  Synonyms: bronco buster, broncobuster.
4.
A person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something.  "Sanction buster" , "Crime buster"
5.
A person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically.  Synonym: baby buster.


Bust

adjective
1.
Lacking funds.  Synonyms: broke, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke.



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"Buster" Quotes from Famous Books



... with eight strands down in the round part. I taught him how to braid it." He chewed a moment and spat before going on: "And now look at him. He's little, but oh my." Something was working under McHurdie's belt, for Bob could hear it chuckling as he chewed: "Wasn't she a buster? It's funny, ain't it—the way we all pick big ones—we sawed-offs"? The laugh came—a quiet, repressed gurgle, and he added: "Yes—by hen, and you long-shanks always pick little dominickers. Eh?" He ...
— A Certain Rich Man • William Allen White
... one, and perhaps Buster Beggs and Luke Watson. I asked some of the other fellows, but they had other engagements. Old John went down to the post-office for letters a while ago. Maybe he'll ...
— Dave Porter in the Gold Fields - The Search for the Landslide Mine • Edward Stratemeyer
... continued Grace, "but they were all interesting. The girl who owned the car was a Miss McCarthy, a true Irish colleen and awfully witty. She and Nora O'Malley swore friendship on sight. Then there was a stout girl whose nickname was 'Buster,' and a quiet, brown-eyed girl named Hazel Holland. They write to me occasionally and they are all going to Overton when they ...
— Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... Muskrat in the Smiling Pool; of Happy Jack Squirrel, hiding in the tree tops; of Lightfoot the Deer, lying in the closest thicket he could find. It was even clutching at the hearts of Granny and Reddy Fox and of great, big Buster Bear. It seemed to Peter that no one was so big or so small that this terrible Spirit of Fear ...
— The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer • Thornton W. Burgess
... prepared the oat bait, the two Wilder boys began to beat on the pans, calling Buster and the ...
— Comrades of the Saddle - The Young Rough Riders of the Plains • Frank V. Webster


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