Usually means: Sculptures representing people's heads, shoulders.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. busts: Merriam-Webster
  2. busts: Collins English Dictionary
  3. busts: Vocabulary.com
  4. Busts, bust's, busts: Wordnik
  5. busts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. busts: Wiktionary
  7. busts: Dictionary.com
  8. busts: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. busts: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. busts: Financial dictionary

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  1. busts: Encyclopedia

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  1. busts: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bust)

verb:  (transitive, colloquial, chiefly US) To break.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To arrest (someone) for a crime.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.
verb:  (transitive) To debunk, dispel (a belief).
verb:  (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
verb:  (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
verb:  (finance, transitive) To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
verb:  (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
verb:  (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To break in (an animal).
verb:  (transitive, slang) To break in (a woman or girl), to deflower
verb:  (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate; to eject semen or to squirt.
verb:  (journalism, intransitive) For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
verb:  (chess, slang) To refute an established opening.
verb:  (slang, African-American Vernacular, transitive) To shoot (a gun).
verb:  (slang, African-American Vernacular, intransitive) To attack, hit or insult (someone).
verb:  (slang) To do or perform; to move quickly.
noun:  (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
noun:  (slang) A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
noun:  (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
noun:  (chess, slang) A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
noun:  (slang) A disappointment.
noun:  (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
noun:  (economics) The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
noun:  (slang, dated) A spree, unrestrained revel, or wild party.
adjective:  (slang) Without any money, broke, bankrupt.
noun:  A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
noun:  The circumference of a woman's chest around her breasts.
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