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Busted   /bˈəstɪd/   Listen
adjective
busted  adj.  
1.
Inoperable due to damage; broken; of a machine; as, the coke machine is busted. (informal)
2.
Arrested for committing a crime; of a person; as, the rock star was busted for coke possession.. (informal)
3.
(predicate) Same as demoted; said especially of military rank, and often folowed by to; as, he was busted to corporal for being AWOL.
4.
(predicate) Same as exhausted; of people.






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"Busted" Quotes from Famous Books



... I want to know more about this business. I've taken your word so far that we would be backed up all right, and I hope we are. But I can't afford to be beaten, and if Weeks isn't clean busted up, he'll hound me to death. I've got to know more ...
— The Short Line War • Merwin-Webster

... clap yer hands if yer like it; an' if yer want some more, yer must clap enough to split yer gloves if yer had any on, an' then I'll give yer the coon dance; an' then if yer like that, yer can play yer gloves are busted with clappin' ...
— Flamsted quarries • Mary E. Waller

... 'ave busted into the garret! Breslau is up 'ere! Send along those American gunmen, or somebody ...
— The Dark Star • Robert W. Chambers

... time, ev'ry dammed stream busted away, and the waters dride up. And the boat ran ashore and got stuck fast, in one of ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870 • Various

... they impressed me as being all that was claimed, a distinct race, with characteristics more nearly allied to the Ethiopian and the Mongolian than to the surrounding red races. As I figured this out somewhat slowly, De Noyan busted himself with the meal, and, thus engrossed, apparently forgot the ...
— Prisoners of Chance - The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, - through His Love for a Lady of France • Randall Parrish


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