Buster

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing.

   “Now death, I pray thee what is it, but a buster of bonds; a destruction of toyle?”

2. isim Forming compounds denoting a team, weapon, or device specialized in the destruction of the first element.

   “German ‘balloon busters’ attack the Dover barrage.”

3. isim A broncobuster.

   “The buster must be careful to keep well away from sheds and timber.”

4. isim Forming compounds denoting an agent or agency tasked with reducing or eliminating the first element.

   “Men nicknamed him the ‘Booze Buster’, and cartoonists loved to picture him, revolver in hand,... fighting the demon rum.”

5. isim Someone or something remarkable, especially for being loud, large, etc.

   “‘I had to clean this old roarer,’ continued the ‘editor’... as he wiped the barrel of his pistol. ‘She's a buster, I tell you.’”

6. isim A form of address, particularly of men: guy, dude, fella, mack, buddy, loser. (Originally as 'old buster'.)

   “That's generous, old buster.”

7. isim A loaf of bread.

   “Three penny busters, and a whole kit-full of winegar and mustard.”

8. isim A drinking spree, a binge.

   “They were on a buster, and were taken up by the police.”

9. isim A gale, a strong wind; (especially Australia) a southerly buster.

   “‘This is a buster,’ i.e. a powerful or heavy wind.”

10. isim A heavy fall; (also performing arts) a staged fall, a pratfall.

    “Dainty... came down ‘a buster’ at the last hurdle, and Scots Grey cantered in by himself.”

11. isim A molting crab.

    “In that state he is called a ‘Buster’, bursting his shell.”

12. isim A cheat's die whose sides bear only certain combinations of spots, so that undesirable values can never be rolled.

    “Tops and Bottoms (also Tops, Busters, Ts, Mis-spots): These are the dice used by the professional cheats.”

13. özel isim A surname.
14. özel isim A male given name.
15. özel isim A male nickname.
16. özel isim Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.

    “Set this straight, Buster. I'm not here to say "please." I'm here to tell you want to do. And if self-preservation is an instinct you possess, you better fuckin' do it and do it quick.”